Franz Rosenzweig (December 25, 1887 – December 10, 1929) was an influential Jewish theologian and philosopher.

The Star of Redemption

Rozensweig's major work is The Star of Redemption, in which he expounds his new philosophy, a description of the relationships between God, humanity and world as they are connected by creation, revelation and redemption. In this work he is critical of all Western philosophy that seeks to efface the fear of death and replace actual human existence with an ideal. Hegel's Idealist philosophy is a primary target of such attacks.

"It was in the Macedonian trenches that this work of Franz Rosenzweig was written.

If one considers the density, the concentratedness of this text, the constructive achievement and the linguistic sensibility, then one can only wonder at how someone can write such a thing on military post cards to his mother in Kassel, who then copies it from torn scraps of paper so that it becomes a book -this is among the most astonishing events."