Volume 49, Number 19 · December 5, 2002
A Battle for Religion
By Mark Lilla
BOOKS DRAWN ON FOR THIS ARTICLE
The Star of Redemption
by Franz Rosenzweig, translated from the German by William W. Hallo
University of Notre Dame Press, 445 pp., $19.50 (paper)
Philosophical and Theological Writings
by Franz Rosenzweig, translated from the German and edited by Paul W. Franks and Michael L. Morgan
Hackett, 165 pp., $34.95 $12.95 (paper)
Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig
edited and translated from the German by Barbara E. Galli, with a foreword by Leora Batnitzky
Syracuse University Press, 183 pp., $39.95; $22.95 (paper)
God, Man, and the World: Lectures and Essays
by Franz Rosenzweig, edited and translated from the German by Barbara E. Galli, with a foreword by Michael Oppenheim
Syracuse University Press, 152 pp., $39.95; $19.95 (paper)
Franz Rosenzweig's "The New Thinking"
edited and translated from the German by Alan Udoff and Barbara E. Galli
Syracuse University Press,232 pp., $39.95; $19.95 (paper)
On Jewish Learning
by Franz Rosenzweig, edited by N.N. Glatzer
University of Wisconsin Press, 128 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy
by Peter Eli Gordon
University of California Press, 351 pp., $65
Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God
by Franz Rosenzweig, translated from the German and with an introduction by Nahum Glatzer, and an introduction by Hilary Putnam
Harvard University Press, 118 pp., $16.50 (paper)
Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered
by Leora Batnitzky
Princeton University Press, 281 pp., $47.50
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig
by Eric L. Santner
University of Chicago Press, 156 pp., $40.00; $16.00 (paper)
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
by Nahum N. Glatzer, with a foreword by Paul-Mendes Flohr
Hackett, 419 pp., $37.95; $16.95 (paper)
The story of Franz Rosenzweig's life is among the most moving in the history of twentieth-century thought. Rosenzweig was born on Christmas Day 1886 into an assimilated Jewish family in Kassel, Germany. Although there was a long tradition of religious learning in the family, Franz acquired only a superficial introduction to Jewish life at home, where the Sabbath was not celebrated. His family hoped he would pursue a medical career but at the University of Freiburg his interests shifted to philosophy and modern history under the influence of the distinguished scholar Friedrich Meinecke, who supervised his doctoral dissertation. A gifted student, Rosenzweig gave every appearance of being a conventional academic in the years leading up to the First World War.
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