Description: Pollock argues that Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption is devoted to the philosophical task of grasping 'the All' - the whole of what is - as a system.
Brief description: Benjamin Pollock is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He is author of articles in the philosophy of religion and in modern Jewish philosophy appearing in AJS Review, Jewish Studies Quarterly, and other leading journals, and he is co-editor with Michael Morgan of The Philosopher as Witness: Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust.
Review Quotes: "Going against the grain of a number of dominant strands in the interpretation of Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption, especially in the last twenty years, Benjamin Pollock returns to the way in which a number of Rosenzweig's contemporaries and, Pollock claims, Rosenzweig himself understood the task of the Star: as a systematic attempt to know "the All." Lucidly written and meticulously researched, this book will enliven discussion not only about Rosenzweig's The Star but also about the charge of philosophical thinking, broadly understood." --Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University