Franz Rosenzweigis one of the most significant German Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century Published in German inand now finally available in English for the first time Hegel and the State is a major contribution to the understanding of Hegels political and social thought and a profound analysis of the intellectual currents that shaped the German state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThrough careful readings of Hegels early handwritten manuscripts Rosenzweig shows that Hegel was wrestling with the problem of how to reconcile the subjectivity and freedom of the individual within a community and ultimately the political state According to Rosenzweig the route out of this conundrum chosen by Hegel shaped his mature political philosophy where he saw the relationship between the individual and the state as reciprocal At a deeper level the significance of Hegel and the State lies in the way that Rosenzweig explains the failure of Hegels quasicommunitarian view