Identity, Intelligence, and Relativism: Neher, Taylor, and Cacciari

Abstract

Andr� Neher writes in his book Ils ont refait leur �me: �Genesis and Exodus meet at the crossroads of Who? and Where?�. �The problem of Jewish identity�, in fact, cannot be addressed starting �from the question: �Who are you?�. The Jew is related to the first question posed by God to Adam in Genesis: �Where are you?�. In the Hebrew problematic, it is of the same identity as God�. Instead, Pharaoh, urged by Moses for the sake of the Jews� freedom, asks: �Who is God?�. As in: I do not know Him. Neher explains: �You cannot ask: �Who is God?�. That would be denying it. All you can ask is: �Where is God?��.