The Star of Redemption is a war book attacking 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. The link between the conditions in which the book was written (World War I, the Macedonia trenches) and its status as a declaration of war would thus already suffice to require that one attend to what Rosenzweig had to say about war. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 453

Categorization

• XREF: This frames how a canonical theological text encodes enmity—material for how theology and war interpenetrate in the Jew/Arab cluster.