Language:
German
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica; Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,4 (1989) 221-241
Keywords:
Bloch, Ernst, Political and social views
;
Hess, Moses, Criticism and interpretation
;
Jewish philosophers
;
Zionism Philosophy
;
Zionism Political aspects
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Discusses the political philosophy of Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) in regard to Zionism and the early Zionist views of Moses Hess. Describes, also, Bloch's views on antisemitism and fascism. Like Horkheimer and Adorno, Bloch saw modern antisemitism as a product of the advanced capitalist industrial society, in which disregard of the individual made it possible to label whole groups and send them to gas chambers. Bloch further saw in the lack of synchronization between industrial modernization and sociocultural and political development (especially in Germany) the source for eruption of archaic emotions and of barbaric Jew-hatred.
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