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Product details
- ISBN 9780226728018
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Christianity 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."
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.
