Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe (Radical Thinkers)
by Michael Löwy
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Towards the end of the 19th 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 cabbalistic 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Michael Lowy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
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Radical Thinkers (120 - Set 14(4))
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- Central Europe
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- Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
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- 943.004924 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Standard subdivisions of Germany Ethnic And National Groups Jews
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- DS135 .E83 .L6913 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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