Hardback
June 6, 2021
9780295748665
English
560
1 table
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
1.95 Pounds (US)
$39.95 USD, £33.00 GBP
v2.1 Reference

Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx

The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world's most resolute, intellectually driven, and philosophical revolutionaries, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots of their alienation from existing society and determination to change it extend back to the very heart of the Enlightenment, when Spinoza and other philosophers living in a rigid, hierarchical society colored by a deeply hostile theology first developed a modern revolutionary consciousness.

Leading intellectual historian Jonathan Israel shows how the radical ideas in the early Marx's writings were influenced by this legacy, which, he argues, must be understood as part of the Radical Enlightenment. He traces the rise of a Jewish revolutionary tendency demanding social equality and universal human rights throughout the Western world. Israel considers how these writers understood Jewish marginalization and ghettoization and the edifice of superstition, prejudice, and ignorance that sustained them. He investigates how the quest for Jewish emancipation led these thinkers to formulate sweeping theories of social and legal reform that paved the way for revolutionary actions that helped change the world from 1789 onward—but hardly as they intended.

 

9780295748665 : revolutionary-jews-from-spinoza-to-marx-israel
Hardback
560 Pages
$39.95 USD

Other Titles from Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era

David B. Ruderman
Aug 2020 - University of Washington Press
$35.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$50.00 USD - Hardback

School Photos in Liquid Time

Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, OtherEric Margolis
Dec 2019 - University of Washington Press
$105.00 USD - Hardback
$35.00 USD - Paperback / softback

The Jewish Bible

David Stern
Jul 2019 - University of Washington Press
$105.00 USD - Hardback
$34.95 USD - Paperback / softback

Other Titles in HISTORY / Jewish

True to My God and Country

Françoise S. Ouzan
Feb 2024 - Indiana University Press
$80.00 USD - Hardback
$35.00 USD - Paperback / softback

Home after Fascism

Anna Koch
Nov 2023 - Indiana University Press
$90.00 USD - Hardback
$48.00 USD - Paperback / softback

Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism

Yair Furstenberg, translated by Sara Tova Brody
Nov 2023 - Indiana University Press
$75.00 USD - Hardback
$35.00 USD - Paperback / softback