Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy

Benjamin Pollock argues that Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption is devoted to a singularly ambitious philosophical task: grasping “the All” – the whole of what is – in the form of a system. In asserting Rosenzweig’s abiding commitment to a systematic conception of philosophy often identified with German Idealism, this book breaks rank with the assumptions about Rosenzweig’s thought that have dominated the scholarship of the last decades. Indeed, the Star’s importance is often claimed...