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

  • Authors: Franz Rosenzweig - Rosenzweig - Nahum N. - Franz and Glatzer
  • ISBN 10: 0674921194
  • ISBN 13: 9780674921191
  • Release: May 1, 1999
  • Format: Paperback (128 pages)
  • List Price: $20.00
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    List Price: $20.00

    Tags: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Eastern,

    Book 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

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