Understanding the Sick and the Healthy : A View of World, Man, and God, With a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam Paperback / softback
by Franz Rosenzweig
Paperback / softback
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Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible precis of his famous Star of Redemption.
An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig's "new thinking," Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form of an ironic narrative about convalescence.
With superb simplicity and beauty, it puts forth an important critique of the nineteenth-century German Idealist philosophical tradition and expresses a powerful vision of Jewish religion.
Harvard's Hilary Putnam provides a new introduction to this classic work for a contemporary audience. "Today, more than three-quarters of a century after it was written, the critique of philosophy in this book is what makes it of such great interest.
Critique of philosophy has been a central theme of twentieth-century philosophy, and many philosophers have attacked some of the targets that Rosenzweig attacked in his little book.
Yet this early attack by a profound religious thinker is far more powerful and far more interesting than most."-From the new Introduction by Hilary Putnam
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages, None
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:05/05/1999
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- ISBN:9780674921191
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages, None
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:05/05/1999
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- ISBN:9780674921191