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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Main Author: Steele-Fisher, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2021
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 249-264
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987 / Messianism / Sabbathianism / Bloch, Ernst 1885-1977 / Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BH Judaism
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Modern Jewish Thought
B Apocalypticism
B Messianism
B Political Theology
B Gnosticism
B Marxism
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