Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe : A Study in Elective Affinity - Rilegato

Lowy, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0804717761 ISBN 13: 9780804717762

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to mark modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of German Romanticism and Jewish Messianism, their thought was organized around the kabbalistic idea of 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, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Georg Lukacs.

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“Löwy explores in this remarkable study . . . a generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals of an antiauthoritarian political orientation who left a considerable mark on 20th-century radical thought. . . . As Löwy’s subtle and profound book reminds us, their legacy is a rich one.”—American Historical Review

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• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0804717761
• ISBN 13: 9780804717762
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280