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The Fruit of Our Lips (Hardcover)
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy; Edited by Raymond Huessy
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This book makes the first volume of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy's
Soziologie available in English for the first time since its 1956
publication in German. Rosenstock-Huessy argues that social
philosophy has favored abstract and spatially contrived categories
of social organization over temporal processes. This preference for
space-thinking has diverted us from recognizing the power of speech
and its relationship to living on the front lines of life. Taking
speech and the social responsibilities and reciprocities that
accompany naming as the key to social reality, In the Cross of
Reality provides a sociological exploration of "play" spaces as the
basis for reflexivity. It also explores the spaces of activity and
their correlation in war and peace to the spheres of "serious
life." If we are to survive and flourish, different qualities and
reciprocal relationships must be cultivated so that we can deal
with different fronts of life. Arguing that modern intellectuals
and their obsession with space have created a dangerously false
choice between mechanical and aesthetic salvation,
Rosenstock-Huessy clears a path so that we better appreciate our
relationship between past and future in founding and in
partitioning time.
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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