System and Revelation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig

System and Revelation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig by Stephane Moses. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780814321287.

Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig questioned the whole of Western philosophical tradition and tried to found "new thinking" based on the Jewish-Christian concept of Revelation. System and Revelation, the first contemporary, comprehensive analysis of Rosenzweigs thinking, describes his philosophy as it is presented in his major work, The Star of Redemption, and highlights its relevance to postmodern thinking. Emphasizing the conceptual structures of Rosenzweigs philosophy, its references to cultural and historical data, as well as the implicit tensions that undermine the systematical coherence of this thinking, Mosès underlines some of the most fundamental speculative gestures in Rosenzweigs thought. System and Revelation is neither Rosenzweigs spiritual biography nor a study of the whole of his work; rather it is a look at Rosenzweigs place within the history of contemporary philosophy through an analysis that is part exposition, part commentary, and part interpretation.