Planetary Service

Planetary Service
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1620324482

Understanding Rosenstock-Huessy

Understanding Rosenstock-Huessy
Author: Norman Fiering
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1666713929

The contributions of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), one of the most profound and original thinkers of the twentieth century, span several disciplines in the humanities--history, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, religion--although his work is ultimately uncategorizable. In 1933, immediately upon the ascent of Hitler, he emigrated to the United States from Germany, taught at Harvard for two years, and then at Dartmouth College until 1957. His voice was prophetic, urgent, compelling, and it remains relevant. This collection of essays is by a retired professor of history who was a student of Rosenstock-Huessy's in the 1950s and found his lecturing transformative. It is not a nostalgic book, however. It is written with the conviction that Rosenstock-Huessy still needs to be heard, more urgently than ever for the betterment of humankind.

The Origin of Speech

The Origin of Speech
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Argo Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1981
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780912148137

Out of Revolution

Out of Revolution
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 857
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1625640196

This classic, originally published in 1938, was reprinted in 1969 for a new generation by Berg Publishers. From the new introduction by Harold J. Berman: "That this book--written six decades ago--is without question an extraordinary book, a remarkable book, a fascinating book, has not saved it from relative obscurity. It is directed against conventional historiography, and for the most part the conventional historians have either ignored it or denounced it . . . [It] is a history in the best sense of the word. Although it embodies original scholarship of the highest professional quality, it is written primarily for the amateur, the person of general education, who wants to know where we came from and whither we are headed. But it is also a theory of history: how history should be understood, how historians should write about it . . .. Out of Revolution interprets modern Western history as a single 900-year period, initiated by total revolution . . . and punctuated thereafter by a series of total revolutions that broke out successively in the different European nations . . .. Rosenstock-Huessy was a prophet who, like many great prophets, failed in his own time, but whose time may now be coming."

Religion, Redemption and Revolution

Religion, Redemption and Revolution
Author: Wayne Cristaudo
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1442643013

Religion, Redemption, and Revolution closely examines the intertwined intellectual development of one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Franz Rosenzweig, and his friend and teacher, Christian sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. The first major English work on Rosenstock-Huessy, it also provides a significant reinterpretation of Rosenzweig's writings based on the thinkers' shared insights — including their critique of modern Western philosophy, and their novel conception of speech. This groundbreaking bookprovides a detailed examination of their 'new speech thinking' paradigm, a model grounded in the faith traditions of Judaism and Christianity. Wayne Cristaudo contrasts this paradigm against the radical liberalism that has dominated social theory for the last fifty years. Religion, Redemption, and Revolution provides powerful arguments for the continued relevance of Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy's work in navigating the religious, social, and political conflicts we now face.

I am an Impure Thinker

I am an Impure Thinker
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1620324458

Creator

Creator
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2023-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1514002175

Discussion about God's work of creation are often overwhelmed by questions such as the age of the earth and the relationship between divine creation and evolution. Without completely ignoring these issues, this rigorously grounded theological interpretation of Genesis 1 engages thinkers like Plato, Martin Luther, and Karl Barth.

Idolizing the Idea

Idolizing the Idea
Author: Wayne Cristaudo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1793602360

Ever since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in the names drawn upon by the community. Commencing with a critique of Plato’s original philosophical decision, Cristaudo takes up the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the ‘way of ideas’ to its own detriment. His argument identifies the major paradigmatic developments in modern philosophy commencing from the new metaphysics pioneered by Descartes up until the analytic tradition and the anti-domination philosophies which now dominate social and political thought. Along the way he argues that the paradigmatic shifts and break-downs that have occurred in modern philosophy are due to being beholden to an inadequate sovereign idea, or small cluster of ideas, which contribute to the occlusion of important philosophical questions. In addition to chapters on Descartes, and the analytic tradition and anti-domination philosophies, his critical history of modern philosophy explores the core ideas of Locke, Berkeley, Malebranche, Locke, Hume, Reid, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger. The common thread uniting these disparate philosophies is what Cristaudo calls ‘ideaism’ (sic.). Rather than expanding our reasoning capacity, ‘ideaism’ contributes to philosophers imposing dictatorial principles or models that ultimately occlude and distort our understanding of our participative role within reality. Drawing upon thinkers such as Pascal, Vico, Hamann, Herder, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber and Eugen Rosensock-Huessy Cristaudo advances his argument by drawing upon the importance of encounter, dialogue, and a more philosophical anthropological and open approach to philosophy.

The Christian Future

The Christian Future
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1620324504