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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788983703321

Titolo

The cross and the star [[electronic resource] ] : the post-Nietzschean Christian and Jewish thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig / / edited by Wayne Cristaudo and Frances Huessy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-282-41359-7

9786612413599

1-4438-1137-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CristaudoWayne <1954->

HuessyFrances

Disciplina

210.922

Soggetti

Philosophy and religion - Germany - History - 20th century

Jewish philosophy - Germany - History - 20th century

Philosophy, German - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, a Christian convert and a social philosophy scholar, had an intense conversation with the Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig in 1913. This "Leipzig Conversation" shattered Rosenzweig's understanding of the meaning of religion, but it also propelled him to embrace his innate Jewish faith. Three years later, they engaged in a correspondence that has emerged as an historic, stunning dialogue on Jewish-Christian thinking. Rosenzweig went on to write The Star of Redemption, a...