Rosenzweig framed his philosophy as a declaration of war against German idealism

Evidence

The Star of Redemption, writes Nahum Glazer, is “the most curious of ‘war books.’ A militant book it is, especially in its first parts, and confident of victory in its final passages. The enemy it attacks is the philosophy of German idealism, the home it defends is the individual.” Like love, which in the Star declares war on death (“ihm sagt die Liebe Kampf an”), Rosenzweig’s war book is thus itself a declaration of war. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 453

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how intellectual work throughout history has been framed in martial metaphors — from Rosenzweig’s ‘war book’ to scientific ‘frontiers’ and ‘campaigns’ — and what that framing conceals about the actual enemy being fought.
• XREF: connects to: Rosenzweig conceived the Free Jewish School as an engine of Jewish intellectual renewal