Franz Rosenzweig was a German theologian, philosopher, and translator.
10 Facts About Franz Rosenzweig
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Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany, to an affluent, minimally observant Jewish family.
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Franz Rosenzweig's father owned a factory for dyestuff and was a city council member.
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Franz Rosenzweig started to study medicine for five semesters in Gottingen, Munich, and Freiburg.
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Franz Rosenzweig was a student of Hermann Cohen, and the two became close.
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Franz Rosenzweig is critical of any attempt to replace actual human existence with an ideal.
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Franz Rosenzweig was critical of the Jewish scholar Martin Buber's early work but became close friends with him upon their meeting.
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Buber was a Zionist, but Franz Rosenzweig felt that a return to Israel would embroil the Jews into a worldly history that they should eschew.
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Franz Rosenzweig criticized Buber's dialogical philosophy because it is based not only on the I-Thou relation but on I-It, a notion that Franz Rosenzweig rejected.
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Franz Rosenzweig suffered from the muscular degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.