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 mark 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...