Zvi H. Rosen

Zvi H. Rosen c. 1960

Zvi H. Rosen (* 1925 in Danzig ; † 2014 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli philosopher . He escaped persecution during National Socialism , initially studied and worked in Poland , after repression he emigrated to Israel, where he was professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University from 1964 until his retirement .

Life

Zvi H. Rosen was born in Gdansk in 1925 . Already in his childhood he was exposed to defenses by German classmates. In 1939, however, the real persecution began in Danzig, to which almost all of his family members fell victim. By fortunate coincidences he escaped the captors. After the Second World War, Zvi H. Rosen began studying philosophy and sociology in Poland - first in Wrocław , then in Warsaw . From 1953 to 1958 he was a lecturer in philosophy at the Universities of Wrocław and Warsaw. In 1957 he acquired the Dr. Ph. At the University of Warsaw with Leszek Kolakowski . The re-emerging anti-Semitism in Poland finally caused him to emigrate to Israel. After several years as head of the Tel Aviv University of Technology, Zvi H. Rosen has been professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University since 1964 - from 1983 to 1988 he was dean of the philosophy faculty. In addition to many other visiting professorships at various universities in the USA and in Frankfurt am Main, Zvi H. Rosen held the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel in 1992 . On April 29, 2014 Zvi H. Rosen died in Tel Aviv - shortly after the death of his wife, whom he cared for over the past few years.

His books and philosophical treatises, written in several languages ​​- Polish, English, Hebrew, German - and translated into even more languages, revolve primarily around three subject areas:

1. the study of the history of philosophy by the Young Hegelians - especially Moses Hess , Bruno Bauer and Karl Marx ;
2. Studies on the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche ;
3. the philosophical development of critical theory , especially studies on Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse .

All of these three fields of research are interlinked, whereby Zvi H. Rosen is particularly concerned with working out the interrelationship between political and religious thought.

Fonts (selection)

• The Young Hegelians and Christianity . Warsaw 1958.
• Economy, Society and State in Max Weber . Ramat-Gan and Toronto 1965.
• Karl Marx's Intellectual World . Ramat-Gan and Toronto 1973.
• Karl Marx and Bruno Bauer. Bruno Bauer's Influence on Marx's Thought . The Hague 1977 (translated into Spanish, Italian and Japanese).
• Karl Marx and Moses Hess. A contribution to the emergence of Marxism . Hamburg 1983 (translated into Polish and French).
• Tolerance and Violence . Tel-Aviv 1988.
• System without system: Friedrich Nietzsche . Tel-Aviv 1990.
• Max Horkheimer . Munich 1995.
• Interculturality in Max Horkheimer's thinking . Nordhausen 2006
• Friedrich Nietzsche's political world . (in preparation).
• Experiences and life stages as well as Karl Marx's polemical examination of Bruno Bauer's view of the Jewish question and emancipation . In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel 1987–1998 . Kassel 1997.

Secondary literature

• Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Hrsg.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures, Kassel 1987–1998 . Kassel University Press, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2518-0 ( Kassel Semester Books , Series: Studia Cassellana ).