Understanding Rosenstock-Huessy: A Haphazard Collection of Ventures
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Overview
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.
“Rosenstock-Huessy continually astonishes one by his dazzling
and unique insights.”
—W. H. Auden
“I was influenced enough by Rosenstock-Huessy to write a now
forgotten book on his theme, Respondeo etsi mutabor, ‘I
respond although I will be changed.’ The motto would be on my coat
of arms if I had one.”
—Martin E. Marty
“Rosenstock-Huessy was a prophet who, like many great prophets,
failed in his own time but whose time may now be coming.”
—Harold J. Berman
“The historical nature of man is the aspect of reality about which
we have been basically and emphatically instructed in the epoch of
thought beginning with Hegel. . . . Rosenstock-Huessy has
concretized this teaching in so living a way as no other thinker
before him has done.”
—Martin Buber
“The sweeping historical insights of Rosenstock-Huessy are some of
the sharpest and freshest our age has known.”
—Walter J. One, SJ
- Title: Understanding Rosenstock-Huessy: A Haphazard Collection of Ventures
- Author: Norman Fiering
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666713923, 9781666713909, 9781666713916, 1666713929, 1666713902, 1666713910
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666713923
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T19:51:50Z
Norman Fiering is the author of two books, including Jonathan
Edwards’s Moral Thought and Its British Context (1981),
available from Wipf & Stock, and numerous journal articles. For
twenty-three years he was director and librarian of the John Carter
Brown Library at Brown University.