Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy (Hardcover)

Benjamin Pollock argues that Franz Rosenzweig s The Star of Redemption is devoted to a singularly ambitious philosophical task: grasping the All the whole of what is in the form of a system. In asserting Rosenzweig s abiding commitment to a systematic conception of philosophy often identified with German Idealism, this book breaks rank with the assumptions about Rosenzweig s thought that have dominated the scholarship of the last decades. Indeed, the Star s importance is often claimed to lie precisely in the way it opposes philosophy s traditional drive for systematic knowledge and upholds instead a new thinking attentive to the existential concerns, the alterity, and even the revelatory dimension of concrete human life. Pollock shows that these very innovations in Rosenzweig s thought are in fact to be understood as part and parcel of The Star s systematic program. But this is only the case, Pollock claims, because Rosenzweig approaches philosophy s traditional task of system in a radically original manner. For the Star not only seeks to guide its readers on the path toward knowing the All of which all beings are a part; it at once directs them toward realizing the redemptive unity of that very All through the actions, decisions, and relations of concrete human life.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Benjamin Pollock
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-51709-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-51709-5
Barcode:	9780521517096

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