Author:   Rosenzweig, Franz (Author) Glatzer, Nahum N. (Editor) Rosenzweig, Franz (Translator)

Title:    Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, with a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam

Publisher Description:

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

Biographical Note: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) taught philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and is the author of "Hegel and the State" and "The Star of Redemption".

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