Franz Rosenzweigs The Star of Redemption is one of the few lasting books ofour century a work whose originality transcends the disciplinary limits ofphilosophy ... » 

Franz Rosenzweigs The Star of Redemption is one of the few lasting books ofour century a work whose originality transcends the disciplinary limits ofphilosophy and religion and which must be read by anyone whose concern withthe meaning of daily life is urgent and abiding. Maurice Natanson YaleUniversityThe Star of Redemption is widely recognized as a key document modernexistential thought and a significant contribution to wish theology in thetwentieth century. An affirmation of what Rosenzweig called the new thinkingthe work ensconces common sense in the place of abstract conceptualphilosophizing and posits the validity of the concrete individual human beingover that of humanity in general.Fusing philosophy and theology it assigns both Judaism and Christianitydistinct but equally important roles in the spiritual structure of the worldand finds in both biblical religions approaches toward a comprehension ofreality.Resuming the antiHegelian revolt of Schopenhauer Feuerbach Kierkegaard andNietzsche Rosenzweig repudiates the attempt by German idealism to reduce toone essence the three elements of reality God the world and man. In The Starof Redemption he sets forth a system in which these elements are shown to beindependent irreducible from each other and linked through the paths ofcreation revelation and redemption. «