Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and GodFranz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible précis 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 German Idealist philosophical tradition and expresses a powerful vision of Jewish religion. Harvard's Hilary Putnam provides a new introduction to this classic work for a contemporary audience. "Today, more than three-quarters of a century after it was written, the critique of philosophy in this book is what makes it of such great interest. Critique of philosophy has been a central theme of twentieth-century philosophy, and many philosophers have attacked some of the targets that Rosenzweig attacked in his little book. Yet this early attack by a profound religious thinker is far more powerful and far more interesting than most."--From the new Introduction by Hilary Putnam |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Preface to the Expert | 35 |
Preface to the Reader | 37 |
THE ATTACK OF PARALYSIS | 39 |
VISIT AT THE SICKBED | 43 |
DIAGNOSIS | 47 |
THERAPY | 55 |
APROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE OF LETTERS | 59 |
THE CURE THIRD WEEK | 85 |
CONVALESCENCE | 95 |
BACK TO WORK | 101 |
Epilogue to the Expert | 105 |
Epilogue to the Reader | 107 |
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Acknowledgments | 115 |
Chronology and Works | 117 |