Scholem and Rosenzweig: Redemption and (Anti-)Zionism

Maor, Zohar

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“…82 In contrast to the atemporal and apolitical notions of redemption found in the work of contemporaries like Franz Rosenzweig, the conception of tikkun adapted from Scholem entails a recognition of redemption as embedded within history. 83 Considering also Scholem's own longstanding and periodically contentious relationship with Buber, it is perhaps unsurprising that Benjamin was generally most vocal about his criticisms of Buber in correspondence with Scholem.…”

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Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: Buber, Benjamin, and Socialist Eschatology

Wycoff

2020

Political Theory

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Martin Buber’s political thought has enjoyed renewed attention lately, particularly his concept of “theopolitics,” a type of political practice that recognizes God as the ultimate political authority. In Buber’s biblical exegesis, theopolitics is a condition of everyday life in premonarchical Israel, but following the installation of the monarchy, it becomes a specialized activity of prophets, consisting chiefly in divinely commanded intercession against state actions. Buber suggests that a version of this prophetic activity is manifest in present-day socialist cooperatives, especially the kibbutzim. Indeed, for Buber, these cooperatives can be seen as laying the groundwork for messianic redemption. This essay probes some potentially troubling implications of Buber’s theopolitical framework, taking objections raised in Walter Benjamin’s correspondence as an entry point. A central concern for Benjamin is Buber’s nationalist articulation of Jewish identity, which appears all the more problematic when considered in tandem with the teleological view of history evident in Buber’s framework.

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Section: Fragments Of a Benjaminian Critiquementioning

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Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: Buber, Benjamin, and Socialist Eschatology

Wycoff

2020

Political Theory

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Scholem and Rosenzweig: Redemption and (Anti-)Zionism

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Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: Buber, Benjamin, and Socialist Eschatology

Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: Buber, Benjamin, and Socialist Eschatology

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