Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought

Plot

Rosenzweig's life combined a fabulous spiritual search, a profound engagement with philosophy as well as with Judaism, and enormous accomplishment in the face of overwhelming physical handicaps. His thought is both illuminated by and realized in his amazing life. Nahum Glatzer has brought both the life and the thought together in this marvelous collection. There is no better introduction to this seminal Jewish thinker.--Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

The first part of this book tells the story of the man, as far as possible in his own words taken from letters, diaries (published here for the first time), autobiographical reflections, and from reports of physicians and reminiscences of friends. The second part of the book offers representative passages from Rosenzweig's works. It includes chapters such as Renaissance of Jewish Learning and Living; On the Scriptures and their Language; The New Thinking; Philosophy and Religion; God and Man; The Jewish People; Zion and the Remnant of Israel.