  Rosenzweig died on December 10, 1929. Seven months before his death, in May of 1929, Rosenzweig had written a short essay, “Transposed Fronts,” occasioned by the coincidence of two events: the recent second issuing of Hermann Cohen’s Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, and the celebrated disputation held at Davos, in March-April of that year, between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. Rosenzweig’s essay claims that a consideration of the Davos exchange in the light of Cohen’s late work suggests, surprisingly, that it is not Cassirer, Cohen’s disciple, but rather Heidegger, the heir to Cohen’s position of prominence at Marburg, who carries on in the direction of Cohen’s most significant contribution to the thought of the time. Rosenzweig’s late essay is important, moreover, for the way it shows Rosenzweig, shortly before his death, reflecting on contemporary philosophical developments and trying to situate such developments within the context of, or in relation to, his own “new thinking”.