Back to the Future: Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem and the Restorative Messianic Utopia

This article offers a critical analysis of the dispute between two prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers—Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem—on the temporal nature of Jewish messianism, particularly the messianism of the Lurianic kabbalah. Whereas Strauss uses Scholem’s authority to criticize the...

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Main Author: Sawczyński, Piotr (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 7
Further subjects:B Progress
B Messianism
B Leo Strauss
B Judaism
B Gershom Scholem
B Kabbalah
B return
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