“The tragedy of messianic politics”: Gustav Landauer’s hidden legacy in Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin

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• dc.contributor.author Pisano, Libera
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-12T07:29:44Z
• dc.date.available 2024-02-12T07:29:44Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) was a German-Jewish anarchist and radical thinker who was brutally murdered in the Munich Soviet Republic. Paul Mendes-Flohr has contributed enormously to the rediscovery of this long-neglected figure, who nonetheless played a crucial role in the intellectual debates of his time. Mendes-Flohr emphasizes the impact that Landauer’s death had on Martin Buber’s conception of politics at a time when Jewish revolutionaries were attempting to combine messianism and activism. In this essay, as a complement to Mendes-Flohr’s insightful work, I will attempt to show how Landauer’s legacy can be traced in two other German-Jewish thinkers, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin, albeit with important differences. In particular, I want to illustrate how Landauer’s idea of an anarchic diaspora, as well as his idea of revolution as interruption, both based on a unique conception of time, can be seen as two powerful theologico-political devices that he used in order to dismantle a too narrow and too technical idea of politics. I will, therefore, examine how the anarchic diaspora finds its echo in Rosenzweig’s thought, and how the idea of interruption and inversion can be found in Benjamin’s conception of revolution.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101027857.
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• dc.identifier.citation Pisano L. “The tragedy of messianic politics”: Gustav Landauer’s hidden legacy in Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin. Religions. 2022 Feb;13(2):165. DOI 10.3390/rel13020165
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13020165
• dc.identifier.issn 2077-1444
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59069
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher MDPI
• dc.relation.ispartof Religions. 2022 Feb;13(2):165
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• dc.subject.keyword Gustav Landauer
• dc.subject.keyword Walter Benjamin
• dc.subject.keyword Franz Rosenzweig
• dc.subject.keyword German-Jewish thought
• dc.subject.keyword Community
• dc.title “The tragedy of messianic politics”: Gustav Landauer’s hidden legacy in Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin
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