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Witnesses for the Future: Philosophy and Messianism

Witnesses for the Future: Philosophy and Messianism

Bouretz, Pierre
Smith, Michael B.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismJudaismGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0801894506
ISBN13: 9780801894503
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Oct 14 2010
Pages: 984
Weight: 3.25
Height: 2.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

To the horrors of war and genocide in the twentieth century there were witnesses, among them Hermann Cohen, Emmanuel Levinas, Ernst Bloch, Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, and Hans Jonas. All defined themselves as Jews and philosophers. Their intellectual concerns and worldviews often in conflict, they nevertheless engaged in fruitful conversation: through the dialogue between Zionist activism and heterodox forms of Marxism, in the rediscovery of hidden traditions of Jewish history, at the intersection of ethics and metaphysics. They shared a common hope for a better, messianic future and a deep interest in and reliance on the cultural sources of the Jewish tradition.

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