{"product_id":"the-multiformity-of-man-eugen-rosenstock-huessy-9781620324448","title":"The Multiformity of Man","description":"Endorsements: \"\"The historical nature of man is the aspect of reality about which we have been basically and emphatically instructed in the epoch of thought beginning with Hegel . . . Rosenstock-Huessy has concretized this teaching in so living a way as no other teacher before him has done.\"\" Martin Buber \"\"Rosenstock-Huessy continually astonishes one by his dazzling and unique insights.\"\" WH.Auden \"\"He was a thinker of startling power and originality in my view an authentic genius of whom no age produces more than a handful.\"\" Page Smith \"\"Rosenstock-Huessy's is a powerful and original mind. What is most important in his work is the understandｬing of the relevance of traditional value to a civilization still undergoing revolutionary transformations; and this contribution will gain rather than lose significance in the future.\"\" Lewis Mumford About the Contributor(s): Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) was a sociologist and social philosopher who, along with his close friend Franz Rosenzweig, and Ferdinand Ebner and Martin Buber, was a major exponent of speech thinking or dialogicism. The central insight of speech thinking is that speech or language is not merely, or even primarily, a descriptive act, but a responsive and creative act, which is the basis of our social existence. The greater part of Rosenstock-Huessy's work was devoted to demonstrating how speech\/language, through its unpredictable fecundity, expands our powers and, through its inescapably historical forming character, also binds them. Born in Berlin, Germany into a non-observant Jewish family, he converted to Christianity in his late teens. He met and married Margrit H?sy in 1914. Rosenstock-Huessy served as an officer in the German army during World War I. He then pursued an academic career in Germany as a specialist in medieval law, which was disrupted by the rise of Nazism. In 1933, after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he immigrated to the United States where he began a new academic career, initially at Harvard University and then at Dartmouth College, where he taught from 1935 to 1957.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162032444X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620324448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wipf \u0026amp; Stock Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984668066047,"sku":"9781620324448","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b551fdb-5bb2-4559-b441-3afba497b254.jpg?v=1683273571","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-multiformity-of-man-eugen-rosenstock-huessy-9781620324448","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}