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Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God

Franz Rosenzweig; Nahum N. Glatzer; Nahum Norbert Glatzer

Synopsis:
Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible precis of his famous Star of Redemption. An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig's "new thinking" Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form of an ironic narrative about convalescence. With superb simplicity and beauty, it puts forth an important critique of the nineteenth-century German Idealist philosophical tradition and expresses a powerful vision of Jewish religion. Harvard's Hilary Putnam provides a new introduction to this classic work for a contemporary audience.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2005, Softcover - 2005, Softcover - 2005, 2003, Softcover - 2003, Softcover - 2002, 2001, Hardcover - 2001, Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 2000