By Dennis Fischman
Through the years, Karl Marx's tangled relation with Judaism has provoked heated debate between fans and critics alike. Can the Jewish culture larger aid us comprehend Marx's political concept? Which subject matters in Marx's writings develop into clearer whilst learn in a Jewish context?
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1 Louis Dupré defines the essay's theme this way: Attacking Bauer's proposal of total secularization as the solution of the Jewish problem in Germany, Marx claimed that the secular, democratic state is the modern version of the religious illusion. 2 What we are encouraged to learn from "On the Jewish Question," therefore, is what Marx objected to in the liberal idea of freedom and what he would offer in its place. Jews and Judaism enter the picture only incidentally. " Dupré gives it a minor place within Marx's general critique of religion.
Cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. paper). Title. 4dc2090-24603 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as "The Jewish Question about Marx," in Polity 21, no. 4 (Summer 1989). Page v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 1 Four Jewish Questions about Marx 12 2 The Power of the Tongue 34 3 Greek and Hebrew in Marx's Ontology 53 4 Reading and Writing Marx 69 5 Alienation as Exile 92 Conclusion: Political Discourse in Exile 109 Notes 121 Bibliography 137 Index 143 Page vii Acknowledgments It was almost purely a matter of chance that I began my graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in September 1981.
Part of what it means to partake of a tradition is to be sensitive to how one part of that tradition comments on, and is enriched by, all the others. Ideas are not free agents. We understand their content and their import in relation to the web of other thoughts and themes in which we are accustomed to find them. If we decide to relate Marx's writings to Jewish thought, we open ourselves to a whole world of allusions and associations, and we begin to make out an already ongoing conversation in which old statements may resonate with new meanings.