Franz Rosenzweig's Philosophy of Existence

The Star of Redemption, * which presents Franz Rosenzweig''s system of philosophy, begins with the sentence "from death, (vom Tode) , from the fear of death, originates all cognition of the All" and concludes with the words "into life. " This beginning and this conclusion of the book signify more than the first and last words of philosophical books usually do. Taken together - "from death into lif...