For figures ranging from Karl Marx to the luminaries of the Frankfurt School, the 'Jewish Question' — a set of problems related to emancipation and anti-Semitism, cultural assimilation and Zionism — raised significant controversies within Marxist theory. Renowned scholar Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs this intellectual debate that runs over more than a century, discussing both its generative aspects and its blind alleys. In The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate, Traverso explores the causes and the forms of the encounter that took place, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the Holocaust, between the intelligentsia of a cosmopolitan minority and the most radical ideological current of Western modernity. This is the second edition, completely rewritten and updated, of a book already translated into many languages (originally published in French, then translated into English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish).
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In this updated and completely revised second edition, Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs the intellectual debate surrounding the "Jewish Question' over a century of Marxist thought.
Table of Contents Historicising the Marxist Jewish Question: Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Marx, Radical Enlightenment, and the Jews 1 Marx: the Jew as Geldmensch 2 Engels: the Jews as a &'People without History' 3 The Struggle against Anti-Semitism 2 The Jewish Marxist Intelligentsia 1 Central Europe 2 Eastern Europe 3 Hypotheses 3 The German and Austrian Marxists (1880-1920) 1 Anti-Semitism 2 Zionism 3 The Paradigm of Assimilation: Otto Bauer 4 The Paradigm of Assimilation: Karl Kautsky 4 Russian Marxism (1900-20) 1 Lenin 2 Stalin 3 Trotsky 4 Rosa Luxemburg 5 Conclusion 5 Jewish Marxism 1 Russian Marxism and Jewish Marxism 2 The Jewish Workers' Movement 3 National Autonomy: Vladimir Medem 4 Zionism: Ber Borokhov Intermezzo: The Jews and the Russian Revolution (1917-37) 6 Gramsci and the Jewish Question 7 From Weimar to Auschwitz: Anti-Semitism and the German Left 1 The KPD: From the &'Schlageter Line' to the &'Third Period' 2 The &'Roofless Left' 3 Trotsky's Warnings 8 The Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin 1 German Culture and Jewishness 2 Marxism 3 Critique of Progress 4 Historical Materialism and Theology 5 Outsider 9 The Theory of the People-Class: Abram Leon 1 Historiographical Limitations 2 Capitalism and Assimilation 3 Anti-Semitism 4 Solutions 10 Postwar Marxism and the Holocaust 1 The Frankfurt School 2 Ernest Mandel 3 Capitalism and the Holocaust Conclusion Glossary Chronology Bibliography Index
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"This is a rich, complex, fascinating, if at times difficult, intellectual history that brings to life an old debate that is still very topical and relevant today." –Deborah Maccoby, Jewish Voice for Labour
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In this updated and completely revised second edition, Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs the intellectual debate surrounding the 'Jewish Question' over a century of Marxist thought.
More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need for a serious and long-term Marxist book publishing program by releasing original monographs, newly translated texts, and reprints of "classics."
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ISBN
9781642590548
Publisert
2019-10-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Haymarket Books
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

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Enzo Traverso (1957) is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. He has taught in different countries and published many books, translated into a dozen languages, among which are Fire and Blood: The European Civil War (Verso, 2016) and Left-Wing Melancholia (Columbia University Press, 2017).