Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in
Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was
to transform modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of
German Romanticism and Jewish messianism, their thought was
organized around the cabalistic idea of the "tikkoun": redemption.
Redemption and Utopia uses the concept of "elective affinity" to
explain the surprising community of spirit that existed between
redemptive messianic religious thought and the wide variety of
radical secular utopian beliefs held by this important group of
intellectuals. The author outlines the circumstances that produced
this unusual combination of religious and non-religious thought and
illuminates the common assumptions that united such seemingly
disparate figures as Martin Buber, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin and
Georg Lukács.
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