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      Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the Twentieth Century

      Violence and Messianism

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      Violence and Messianism book

      Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the Twentieth Century
      ByPetar Bojanić, Edward Djordjevic
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 24 October 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315181691
      Pages 138
      eBook ISBN 9781315181691
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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      Bojanić, P. (2017). Violence and Messianism: Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the Twentieth Century (E. Djordjevic, Trans.; 1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315181691

      ABSTRACT

      Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber - grappled with problems of violence, revolution and war. At once inheriting and breaking with the great historical figures of political philosophy such as Kant and Hegel, they also exerted considerable influence on the next generation of European philosophers, like Lévinas, Derrida and others.

      This book aims to think through the great conflicts in the past century in the context of the theory of catastrophe and the beginning of new messianic time. Firstly, it is a book about means and ends – that is, about whether good ends can be achieved through bad means. Second, it is a book about time: peace time, war time, time it takes to transfer from war to peace, etc. Is a period of peace simply a time that excludes all violence? How long does it take to establish peace (to remove all violence)? Building on this, it then discusses whether there is anything that can be called messianic acting. Can we – are we capable of, or allowed to – act violently in order to hasten the arrival of the Messiah and peace? And would we then be in messianic time? Finally, how does this notion of messianism – a name for a sudden and unpredictable event – fit in, for example, with our contemporary understanding of terrorist violence? The book attempts to understand such pressing questions by reconstructing the notions of violence and messianism as they were elaborated by 20th century Jewish political thought.

      Providing an important contribution to the discussion on terrorism and the relationship between religion and violence, this book will appeal to theorists of terrorism and ethics of war, as well as students and scholars of Philosophy, Jewish studies and religion studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |5 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|24 pages

      Violence and Illness

      Figures of the Other, Figures of Hegel

      chapter 2|15 pages

      Translating War into Peace

      Quid pro quo

      chapter 3|12 pages

      Love of the Enemy

      chapter 4|11 pages

      Grounds for War

      chapter 5|11 pages

      “Pazifistischer Zug”

      chapter 6|11 pages

      “That aftertaste of violence”

      Violence against Violence

      chapter 7|9 pages

      Sacrifice

      Word, Institution, Institutionalization

      chapter 8|16 pages

      “Divine Violence,” “Radical Violence”

      Korah’s Rebellion

      chapter 9|9 pages

      Victory

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