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

Rosenzweig, Franz

ISBN 10: 0674921194 / ISBN 13: 9780674921191

Published by Harvard Univ Pr, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674921194
• ISBN 13: 9780674921191
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century’s great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible précis 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.

“Today, more than three-quarters of a century after it was written, the critique of philosophy in this book is what makes it of such great interest. Critique of philosophy has been a central theme of twentieth-century philosophy, and many philosophers have attacked some of the targets that Rosenzweig attacked in his little book. Yet this early attack by a profound religious thinker is far more powerful and far more interesting than most.”—From the new Introduction by Hilary Putnam

About the Author

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) taught philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and is the author of Hegel and the State and The Star of Redemption.

Hilary Putnam was Cogan University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University.