Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God.

Franz Rosenzweig. Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God. Edited and translated by Nahum N. Glatzer. New York: Noonday Press, 1953.

Review: –  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… More

Hegel und der Staat

Franz Rosenzweig. Hegel und der Staat. Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1920, reprint Aalen: Scientia, 1962.

Overview: –  In the fall of 1910, Rosenzweig left Freiburg for Berlin, where he began a period of archival work on Hegel’s handwritten Nachlass. Here he gathered the material for what would eventually be his two-volume work, Hegel und der Staat. Rosenzweig earned his PhD in… More

The Star of Redemption

Franz Rosenzweig. The Star of Redemption. Translated by William W. Hallo. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971.

 

Der Mensch und sein Werk IV. Sprachdenken im Übersetzen.

Franz Rosenzweig. Der Mensch und sein Werk IV. Sprachdenken im Übersetzen. 1. Band: Jehuda Halevi. Fünfundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte. Edited by Rafael N. Rosenzweig. Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 2.Band: Arbeitspapiere zur Verdeutschung der Schrift. Edited by Rachel Bat Adam. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1984.

 

Der Stern der Erlösung

Franz Rosenzweig. Der Stern der Erlösung. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1996, 1988.

Overview: –  Rosenzweig understands The Star of Redemption as his contribution to the “new thinking,” and the book does polemicize against those systems of German Idealism in which Rosenzweig finds the “old thinking” to be most fully realized. But the Star’s… More

Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought.

Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought. Presented by Nahum Glatzer, with a new forward by Paul Mendes-Flohr. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998.

Overview: –  Nahum Glatzer has brought both the life and the thought together in this marvellous collection — there is no better introduction to this seminal Jewish thinker.  

God, Man, and the World: Lectures and Essays.

Franz Rosenzweig. God, Man, and the World: Lectures and Essays. Edited and Translated by Barbara E. Galli. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Overview: –  Based on the author’s lectures at the Judisches Freies Lehrhaus, these essays include notes for a group of lectures of 1920, Faith and Knowledge, followed by a three-part lecture series of 1922, The Science of God, The Science of Man, and The Science of World.

Philosophical and Theological Writings

Franz Rosenzweig. Philosophical and Theological Writings. Translated and Edited, with Notes and Commentary, by Paul W. Franks and Michael L. Morgan. Indianapolis: Hackett, Publishing, 2000.

Overview: –  This volume brings together Rosenzweig’s central essays on theology and philosophy, including two works available for the first time in English: the conclusion to Rosenzweig’s book Hegel and the State, and Rosenweig’s famous letter to Rudolph… More

Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig

Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig. Edited and Translated by Barbara E. Galli. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Overview: –  A rare collection of Rosenzweig’s influential work on literary figures, publishers, and music, including Viktor von Weizsacker’s 1930 essay. Published here in English for the first time, these essays offer a glimpse into the cultural and social dimensions… More

Die “Gritli”- Briefe

Franz Rosenzweig. Die “Gritli”- Briefe. Briefe an Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy. Edited by Inken Rühle and Reinhold Mayer, with a preface by Rafael Rosenzweig. Tübingen: Bilam Verlag, 2002.  

Overview: –  The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund commissioned the preparation of Franz Rosenzweig’s correspondence with Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy. This is the only source of the complete surviving correspondence in unabridged form, drawn directly from the original manuscripts.… More

The Star of Redemption

Franz Rosenzweig. The Star of Redemption. Translated by Barbara E. Galli. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Overview: –  The Star of Redemption is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding religion and philosophy in the twentieth century. Fusing philosophy and theology, the book assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but equally important roles in the spiritual… More