Franz Rosenzweig (1886 to 1929) was a German theologian, philosopher and translator. Born in Kassel to an affluent, minimally observant Jewish family, he studied medicine and then history and philosophy at Freiburg and Berlin. After considering conversion to Christianity under the influence of his friend Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy he resolved to live as a Jew first, and in 1913 he turned to Jewish philosophy. A student of Hermann Cohen, he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Hegel and the State, turned against idealism and sought a philosophy that did not begin with an abstract notion of the human. His major work, The Star of Redemption (1921), describes the relationships between God, humanity and the world as they are connected by creation, revelation and redemption, and he engaged critically with the Zionist scholar Martin Buber.
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Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) was a German philosopher
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was a German theologian, philosopher, and translator
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Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany
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We are called to love God, and to do so is to return to the world, and that is redemption.
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We are called to love God, and to do so is to return to the world, and that is redemption.
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In 1913, he turned to Jewish philosophy
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In 1913, he turned to Jewish philosophy
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