Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption is best understood as a rational subjective system
and as such as the redemptive turning point in philosophy and theology in general. In
asserting Rosenzweig's essential commitment to a «new» systematic conception of thinking as the
most basic deepest and comprehensive intellectual procedure Franz Rosenzweig's Rational
Subjective System sheds light on the extensive method of the Star and shows it to be rooted in
a fundamental rethinking of the methodological and logical-metaphysical resources of Kant most
especially of the transcendent metaphysics of the psychological cosmological and theological
substances (i.e. the «threefold nothing» or entia rationis). The true radicality and
originality of Rosenzweig Bontas claims is the exposition of the «rational subjective»
approach to substance and knowledge on the «logical form» of the hypothetical thought (i.e.
the modal relation of logical consequence between original and non-natural ground and
phenomenal consequence that positively establishes the wholly final and non-ideal destinations
of redemption) which valorizes the alliance between pure reason and revelation disrupted by
the Kantian epistemology. The title The Star of Redemption indicates exactly this long
rational and not exclusively mundane «new systematic principle» of coherent and reliable
knowledge which is ultimately shown to be «true» and «right» from a «self-examining»
subjective perspective and thereby justified.
