Moses Hess: The Holy History of Mankind and Other WritingsCambridge University Press, 2004 M12 2 - 148 pages 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 was the first book-length socialist tract to appear in Germany, representing an unusual synthesis of Judaism and Christianity that showed the considerable influence upon Hess of Spinoza, Herder and Hegel. In due course many of Hess's ideas would find their way into the work of Karl Marx, and into subsequent socialist thought. The distinguished political scientist Shlomo Avineri provides the first full English translation of this text, along with new renditions of Socialism and Communism, A Communist Credo; and The Consequences of a Future Revolution of the Proletariat. All of the usual reader-friendly series features are provided, including a chronology, concise introduction and notes for further reading, in a work of special relevance to students of politics, modern European history, and the history of Zionism. |
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... society aimed at achieving social equality and the introduction of common property . The book , published privately by Hess , did not receive much atten- tion , and a few years later , in 1841 , Hess published , again anonymously , his ...
... society aimed at achieving social equality and the introduction of common property . The book , published privately by Hess , did not receive much atten- tion , and a few years later , in 1841 , Hess published , again anonymously , his ...
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... society is to Hess the only worthy and achievable goal . The salience of nationalism in the 1848 revolutions , as well as sub- sequent developments in Germany , gave Hess pause and caused him to reconsider his position . Hess was the ...
... society is to Hess the only worthy and achievable goal . The salience of nationalism in the 1848 revolutions , as well as sub- sequent developments in Germany , gave Hess pause and caused him to reconsider his position . Hess was the ...
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Contents
THE PAST AS THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT | 5 |
The Second Main Period of the Holy History or the | 21 |
Prussia From Gregory the Seventh to | 28 |
The Third Main Period of the Holy History or | 37 |
An Interlude instead of an Introduction to a correct | 52 |
THE FUTURE AS THE CONSEQUENCE | 59 |
Our Present Plight as the Mediator of | 77 |
The New Jerusalem and the End of Days | 85 |
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM | 97 |
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 116 |
CONSEQUENCES OF A REVOLUTION OF | 128 |
Christ and Spinoza from Rome and Jerusalem | 136 |
Index | 6 |
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Page 10 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down ; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves : they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them...
Page 9 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee...
Page 7 - And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 15 - Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah ; and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, he is the God which is in Jerusalem.
Page 7 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 45 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page 6 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 17 - And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Page 12 - Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers ? Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?
Page 14 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.