Editing Franz Rosenzweig (section)

==Early life and education==
Franz Rosenzweig was born in [[Kassel]], [[Germany]], to an affluent, minimally observant [[Jewish]] family. His father owned a factory for dyestuff and was a city council member. Through his granduncle, Adam Rosenzweig, he came in contact with traditional [[Judaism]] and was inspired to request [[Hebrew]] lessons when he was around 11 years old.<ref>{{cite book
 |editor-last= Glatzer
 |editor-first=Nahum Norbert
 |date=1962
 |title=Franz Rosenzweig. His life and thought
 |location=New York
 |publisher=Schocken Books
 |page=XXXVI-XXXVIII
}}</ref> He started to study [[medicine]] for five semesters in [[Göttingen]], [[Munich]], and [[Freiburg]]. In 1907 he changed subjects and studied history and philosophy in [[Freiburg im Breisgau|Freiburg]] and [[Berlin]].

Rosenzweig, under the influence of his colleague and close friend [[Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy]], considered converting to [[Christianity]]. Determined to embrace the faith as the early Christians did, he resolved to live as an observant Jew first, before becoming Christian. After attending [[Yom Kippur]] services at a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin, he underwent a mystical experience. As a result, he became a [[baal teshuva]].<ref>{{cite book
|title=To Mend the World
|author=Emil L. Fackenheim
|year=1994
|publisher=Indiana University Press
|isbn=0-253-32114-X
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=By-Ayj_p-cQC&q=teshuva&pg=PA317
}}</ref> Although he never recorded what transpired, he never again entertained converting to Christianity.

In 1913, he turned to [[Jewish philosophy]]. His letters to his cousin and close friend Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, whom he had nearly followed into Christianity, have been published as ‘’Judaism Despite Christianity’'. Rosenzweig was a student of [[Hermann Cohen]], and the two became close. While writing a doctoral dissertation on [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], ‘’Hegel and the State’', Rosenzweig turned against [[idealism]] and sought a philosophy that did not begin with an abstract notion of the human.

Later in the decade, Rosenzweig discovered a manuscript apparently written in Hegel’s hand, which he named “[[The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism]].”<ref>[[Geoffrey Hartman]], ‘’The Fateful Question of Culture’', Columbia University Press, 1998, p. 164.</ref> The manuscript (first published in 1917)<ref>Robert J. Richards, ‘’The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe’', University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 124 n. 21.</ref> has been dated to 1796 and appears to show the influence of [[F. W. J. Schelling]] and [[Friedrich Hölderlin]].<ref>{{Cite book | last = Josephson-Storm | first = Jason | title = The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences | location = Chicago | publisher = University of Chicago Press | date = 2017 |pages = 63–4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xZ5yDgAAQBAJ | isbn = 978-0-226-40336-6 }}</ref> Despite early debate about the authorship of the document, scholars now generally accept that it was written by Hegel, making Rosenzweig’s discovery valuable for contemporary Hegel scholarship.<ref>{{cite book | first = Glenn | last = Magee |title = Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition |location = Ithaca |publisher = Cornell University Press | date = 2001 | page = 84 | isbn = 0801474507 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pZLe1N0OVSsC }}</ref>