Judaism Despite Christianity: The 1916 Wartime Correspondence Between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig - Softcover

Mendes-Flohr, Paul; Stahmer, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226728013 ISBN 13: 9780226728018

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2011

Synopsis

Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship. Collected here, this correspondence provides an intimate portrait of their views on history, philosophy, rhetoric, and religion as well as on their writings and professors. Most centrally, Rosenstock-Huessy and Rosenzweig discuss, frankly but respectfully, the differences between Judaism and Chiristianity and the reasons they have chosen their respective faiths.

This edition includes a new foreword by Paul Mendes-Flohr, a new preface by Harold Stahmer along with his original introduction, and essays by Dorothy Emmet and Alexander Altmann, who calls this correspondence “one of the most important religious documents of our age” and “the most perfect example of a human approach to the Jewish-Christian problem.”

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Review:

"[The letters] are stunning in their honesty, directness and passion.... Philosophically and culturally they are fascinating." (Christian Century)"

About the Author:

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) was a historian and social philosopher who taught at Harvard University and Dartmouth College. He is the author of Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man and The Christian Future or the Modern Mind Outrun.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0226728013
• ISBN 13: 9780226728018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Rosenstock-Huessy Eugen