Better Than Wine: Love, Poetry, and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig

By Yudit Kornberg Greenberg

This book offers a hermeneutical reading of Franz Rosenzweig's 1921 masterpiece, The Star of Redemption. In her analysis, Yudit K. Greenberg draws on German idealistic and Romantic ideas as well as Kabbalistic philosophical strands in Rosenzweig's thinking. She portrays Rosenzweig as a transitional figure between philosophy and theology, Judaism and German culture, modernity and postmodernity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0788501887
• ISBN13: 9780788501883
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"