Description
| Product ID: | 9781786630858 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Radical Thinkers Set 14 |
| Title: | Redemption and Utopia |
| Subtitle: | Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Lowy, Hope Heaney |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, History of ideas, Social groups: religious groups and communities, History of ideas, Jewish studies, Germany, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka. Part of Radical Thinkers set 14. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-03-28 |
