Religion, Redemption and Revolution

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Religion, Redemption and Revolution

The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Philosophy Western philosophy from c 1800 Philosophy of religion Judaism

Author: Wayne Cristaudo

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Language: English

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Published on: 28th April 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 624 pages

ISBN: 9781442698123


Religion, Redemption, and Revolution closely examines the intertwined intellectual development of one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Franz Rosenzweig, and his friend and teacher, Christian sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. The first major English work on Rosenstock-Huessy, it also provides a significant reinterpretation of Rosenzweig's writings based on the thinkers' shared insights — including their critique of modern Western philosophy, and their novel conception of speech.

This groundbreaking book provides a detailed examination of their ‘new speech thinking’ paradigm, a model grounded in the faith traditions of Judaism and Christianity. Wayne Cristaudo contrasts this paradigm against the radical liberalism that has dominated social theory for the last fifty years. Religion, Redemption, and Revolution provides powerful arguments for the continued relevance of Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy’s work in navigating the religious, social, and political conflicts we now face.

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