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Jewish thought, utopia, and revolution /

In response to the grim realities of the present world Jewish thought has not tended to retreat into eschatological fantasy, but rather to project utopian visions precisely on to the present moment, envisioning redemptions that are concrete, immanent, and necessarily political in nature. In difficul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Namli, Elena, Svenungsson, Jayne, Vincent, Alana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Colección:Value inquiry book series ; 274.
Value inquiry book series. Philosophy and religion.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Philosophy and Religion; Table of Contents; Introduction; ONE Tikkun Olam-""Repairing the World"":Embodying Redemption and Utopia; TWO Jewish Hope Versus Revolutionary Hope; THREE Adorno, Revolution, and Negative Utopia; FOUR Utopia and Revolution: The Romantic Socialismof Gustav Landauer and Martin Buber; FIVE A Secular Utopia: Remarks on the Löwith-Blumenberg Debate; SIX Thinking Revolution With and Beyond Levinas; SEVEN Topos and Utopia: the Place of Art in the Revolution; EIGHT Berlin Debates: The Jews and the Russian Revolution.
  • NINE Jewish Rationalism, Ethics, and Revolution:Hermann Cohen in NevelTEN Reflections of Revolutionary Movements inAmerican Yiddish Poetry: the Case of Proletpen; ELEVEN Nihilism and the Resurrection of Political Space:Hannah Arendt's Utopia?; TWELVE Left (in) Time: Hegel, Benjamin, and Derrida Facing the Status Quo; Works Cited; About the Contributors; Index.