 Informed by an approach to death that resonates with Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, Simmel’s Lebensanschauung (Views of Life 1918), and Heidegger’s Being and Time (whose approach considering death initially takes its cue from Simmel), Susman views human mortality as that which informs human sense-making, which, as a project, is defined by its own temporality (AW 352 and 336–38). Her approach dovetails here with Rosenzweig, whose thought limns death as the marker of the finitude that enables human existence’s forward-looking viewpoint “into life” (Ins Leben, the concluding two words of Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption). This forward-looking perspective oriented towards life that takes death as life’s point of departure rather than its end allows for an understanding of temporality and meaning pointedly opposed to the orientation towards death guiding Heidegger (“Franz Rosenzweig”, 1930 [GK 297–98]).