Love Is Strong as Death
A Biography of Franz Rosenzweig
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2026
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-84325-4 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
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A brilliant and engaging biography of one of the great modern Jewish thinkers.
Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) was one of the central figures of the Jewish cultural and intellectual renaissance in Weimar Germany. His masterwork, The Star of Redemption (1921), is a classic of existential thought and Jewish philosophy, and his considerable legacy also includes his collaboration with Martin Buber on a key translation of the Hebrew Bible into German and the establishment of an education center in Frankfurt that brought together the most important young German-Jewish intellectuals of its time.
Rosenzweig’s personal biography is no less fascinating than his ideas and accomplishments. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rosenzweig’s unpublished personal correspondence, Paul Mendes-Flohr skillfully weaves together the threads of Rosenzweig’s life to give us a moving portrait of this towering figure—from his near-conversion to Christianity to his tragic diagnosis with ALS. Mendes-Flohr also closely explores Rosenzweig’s relationship with Margrit Huessy, who was a vital intellectual partner for Rosenzweig, as well as a muse and lover. He worked out many of his ideas about love both in conversation and consort with her, and Mendes-Flohr shows the importance of intimacy—both romantic and platonic—in the development of Rosenzweig’s thought.
Love Is Strong as Death provides a unique and insightful look at one of the most important modern Jewish thinkers.
Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) was one of the central figures of the Jewish cultural and intellectual renaissance in Weimar Germany. His masterwork, The Star of Redemption (1921), is a classic of existential thought and Jewish philosophy, and his considerable legacy also includes his collaboration with Martin Buber on a key translation of the Hebrew Bible into German and the establishment of an education center in Frankfurt that brought together the most important young German-Jewish intellectuals of its time.
Rosenzweig’s personal biography is no less fascinating than his ideas and accomplishments. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rosenzweig’s unpublished personal correspondence, Paul Mendes-Flohr skillfully weaves together the threads of Rosenzweig’s life to give us a moving portrait of this towering figure—from his near-conversion to Christianity to his tragic diagnosis with ALS. Mendes-Flohr also closely explores Rosenzweig’s relationship with Margrit Huessy, who was a vital intellectual partner for Rosenzweig, as well as a muse and lover. He worked out many of his ideas about love both in conversation and consort with her, and Mendes-Flohr shows the importance of intimacy—both romantic and platonic—in the development of Rosenzweig’s thought.
Love Is Strong as Death provides a unique and insightful look at one of the most important modern Jewish thinkers.
Paul Mendes-Flohr was the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought in the Divinity School and associate faculty in the Department of History at the University of Chicago, as well as professor emeritus of Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of many books, including Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent and Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities.
Preface
Prologue: Franz Rosenzweig’s Eulogy for German Jewry
1. The Birth of a Soul
2. Baden-Baden: Post-Hegel Mortuum
3. A Song of Three
4. Love Is Strong as Death
5. The Father I Longed For
6. Groping One’s Way Home
7. The New Thinking
8. Translation as Metapolitics
Epilogue: Thinking Hurts
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-84325-4 / 0226843254 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-84325-4 / 9780226843254 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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