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Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe
Michael Löwy
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Radical Thinkers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786630858
SKU
V9781786630858
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About Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He is the author of numerous books, including George Lukács: From Romanticism to Bolshevism, The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent Revolution, Marxism in Latin America, The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America and Fire Alarm: ... Read more
Reviews for Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe
Löwy explores in this remarkable study . a generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals of an antiauthoritarian political orientation who left a considerable mark on twentieth-century radical thought . As Löwy's subtle and profound book reminds us, their legacy is a rich one.
American Historical Review
An exceptional thinker.
Le Monde
American Historical Review
An exceptional thinker.
Le Monde