Messianic Illusions: Taubes, Bloch, Benjamin and the Necessity of Interiority
This article addresses rabbi and philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes’s claim that he had “presented the apocalypse of the revolution, although free from the illusions of messianic Marxists like Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin.” Detailing the shape of Taubes’s thought in relation to Bloch and Benjam...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2021
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Critical research on religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 249-264 |
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Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987
/ Messianism
/ Sabbathianism
/ Bloch, Ernst 1885-1977
/ Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism ZC Politics in general |
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Modern Jewish Thought
B Apocalypticism B Messianism B Political Theology B Gnosticism B Marxism |
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| Summary: | This article addresses rabbi and philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes’s claim that he had “presented the apocalypse of the revolution, although free from the illusions of messianic Marxists like Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin.” Detailing the shape of Taubes’s thought in relation to Bloch and Benjamin, it explores the manner in which Taubes embraces their respective messianisms while also charting an interiorized departure predicated upon a history of messianic crisis in Sabbateanism and early Christianity. Further, it frames this in terms of their respective historical contexts. Contrary to the Weimar-era messianism of Bloch and Benjamin inflected by an open futurity despite catastrophe, Taubes's messianism takes shape in response to a foreclosed future brought on by the events of the postwar era. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/20503032211015281 |