Moses Hess: Prophet Of Communism And Zionism
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Long before Marx and Engels reshaped the world with their revolutionary manifesto, Moses Hess was already on fire — a German-Jewish philosopher whose radical vision bridged two of the nineteenth century's most transformative movements: communism and Zionism. Shlomo Avineri's authoritative biography chronicles the restless intellectual life of this largely overlooked giant, tracing Hess's journey from the Rhine-Ruhr coalfields to the salons of Paris, and his profound influence on figures including Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, all while wrestling with questions of national identity, social justice, and human liberation. Avineri, one of Israel's foremost political scientists, presents Hess not as a historical footnote but as a prescient thinker whose ideas anticipated the central ideological battles of the twentieth century. Written with scholarly precision yet animated by genuine admiration, Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism illuminates the contradictions and convictions of a man who refused to separate the universal from the particular — a socialist who never abandoned his Jewish soul. For anyone seeking to understand the intellectual roots of modern political thought, this biography raises a question as urgent today as it was in Hess's own time: can a single conscience truly hold both a dream for all humanity and an unshakeable love for one people?
Author: Shlomo Avineri
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, New York University Press
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Long before Marx and Engels reshaped the world with their revolutionary manifesto, Moses Hess was already on fire — a German-Jewish philosopher whose radical vision bridged two of the nineteenth century's most transformative movements: communism and Zionism. Shlomo Avineri's authoritative biography chronicles the restless intellectual life of this largely overlooked giant, tracing Hess's journey from the Rhine-Ruhr coalfields to the salons of Paris, and his profound influence on figures including Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, all while wrestling with questions of national identity, social justice, and human liberation. Avineri, one of Israel's foremost political scientists, presents Hess not as a historical footnote but as a prescient thinker whose ideas anticipated the central ideological battles of the twentieth century. Written with scholarly precision yet animated by genuine admiration, Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism illuminates the contradictions and convictions of a man who refused to separate the universal from the particular — a socialist who never abandoned his Jewish soul. For anyone seeking to understand the intellectual roots of modern political thought, this biography raises a question as urgent today as it was in Hess's own time: can a single conscience truly hold both a dream for all humanity and an unshakeable love for one people?