Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, with a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam

by Franz Rosenzweig

Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible pr cis of his famous Star of Redemption. An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig's "new thinking," Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form of an ironic narrative about convalescence. With superb simplicity and beauty, it puts forth an important critique of the nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674921194
• ISBN13: 9780674921191
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 8.9"