Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy: The University (1968)

NOTE

This is the transcription of a single lecture, with the following changes and additions:

1. Commonplace phrases as “you see”, “so to speak” are eliminated. Where the speaker corrects himself within the same sentence, only the corrected version is kept.
2. Additions:
   paragraphs,
   chapters with titles scooped from the text,
   Roman numbers for the four parts of a chapter,
   Arabian numbers for the four parts of the parts of a chapter,
   titles for the stories – which are marked by color – which communicate either a personal or historical event,
   sentences are marked in bold print, which are as a sum of thought and to be kept as taken for themselves,
   indices of contents, names, stories, sentences.

One of the main themes of his life: the university – the perseverance with which he strove to renew the universal history – to a new form of assisting the next Council – ecumenical or what not.

And this true to what he experienced together with Franz Rosenzweig and Benno Jacob – the listening to Genesis 1, 1.

Cologne, March 9, 2017
Eckart Wilkens

• Eckart’s Edition: ERH FThe University 1968

• The transcript of „ERH Fashions of Atheism 1968” as PDF
• The audio recordings of „ERH Fashions of Atheism 1968”