Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy Volume 33

by Peter E. Gordon

Book Overview

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philosophers as Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, and Emmanuel Levinas, Rosenzweig is remembered chiefly as a "Jewish thinker," often to the neglect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520246365
• ISBN13: 9780520246362
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"