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Redemption and Utopia - Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe (Radical Thinkers) by Michael Löwy; Hope Heaney is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of German Romanticism and Jewish messianism, their thought was organized around the cabalistic idea of the “tikkoun”: redemption. Redemption and Utopia uses the concept of “elective affinity” to explain the surprising community of spirit that existed between redemptive messianic religious thought and the wide variety of radical secular utopian beliefs held by this important group of intellectuals. The author outlines the circumstances that produced this unusual combination of religious and non-religious thought and illuminates the common assumptions that united such seemingly disparate figures as Martin Buber, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Georg Lukács.

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Author

Michael Löwy; Hope Heaney

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786630872

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Judaism