User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption

'A valuable addition to the continued interest in Rosenzweig's philosophy throughout the 1990s. The author succeeds in clarifying the meaning of the original work using diagrams in places to aid his cause. I found the layout of the book particularly helpful The author had set himself a difficult task, viz. 'to present the PASHAT (simple meaning) of the text, and not REMES (what the text alludes to), DeRASH (how the text may be applied to contemporary situations) or SOD (what the text may mean at a deeper conceptual or spiritual level)'. I believe that Samuelson has succeeded in this admirable aim on a philosophical classic more suited to the latter.' - J.W. Phelan, Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations'This commentary will serve effectively as a teacher’s manual. It deserves a place in any serious collection of modern Jewish thought.' - Religious Studies Review, Vol 30

• I: The Elements, or the Everlasting Fore-World; Introduction; 1: God and his Being, or Metaphysics; 2: The World and its Meaning, or Metalogic; 3: The Human and His Self, or Metaethics; II: The Course, or the Always-Renewed World; Introduction; 1: Creation, or the Everlasting Ground of Things; 2: Revelation, or the Ever-Renewing Birth of the Soul; 3: Redemption, or the Eternal Future of the Kingdom; III: The Structure, or the Eternal Over-World; Introduction; 7: The Fire, or the Eternal Life; 8: The Rays, or the Eternal Way; 9: The Star, or the Eternal Truth