Moses Hess: The Holy History of Mankind and Other Writings

Informationen zum Autor Moses Hess was both a colleague and protagonist of Karl Marx in the early communist movement! and one of the forerunners of Zionism: he died in Paris in 1875. Klappentext The Holy History of Mankind was published in 1837! the first book-length socialist tract to appear in Germany! representing an unusual synthesis of Judaism and Christianity. (Moses Hess was a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought.) Shlomo Avineri provides the first complete English translation of this classic text! along with new renditions of Sozialsmus und Kommunismus and Ein Kommunistisches Bekenntis. The volume includes a chronology! concise introduction and notes for further reading. Zusammenfassung Moses Hess is a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought. The Holy History of Mankind appeared in 1837! and Shlomo Avineri provides the first full English translation of this classic text! along with new renditions of Sozialismus und Kommunismus and Ein Kommunistisches Bekenntnis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Note on the text; Chronology; Bibliographical note; The Holy History of Mankind; Socialism and Communism; A Communist Credo; Consequences of a Future Revolution of the Proletariat; Appendix: Christ and Spinoza (from Rome and Jerusalem: The Last Nationality Question); Index.

Product details

• Authors: Moses Hess
• Assisted by: Shlomo Avineri (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor), Shlomo Avineri (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2004
• EAN: 9780521383479
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38347-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; Cambridge Texts in the History; Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)