Autore
Scordari, Chiara Carmen

Titolo
Tra socialismo e messianismo. L’utopia in Cohen, Buber e Benjamin
Periodico
Filosofia politica
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 445 - Pagina finale: 458

The essay analyzes how Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, and Walter Benjamin secularize Jewish messianism into distinct yet interconnected forms of modern utopian thought. Cohen transforms the messianic idea into a rational-ethical principle orienting humanity toward an infinite process of moral and social development. Influenced by Gustav Landauer’s libertarian socialism, Buber promotes a dialogical socialism rooted in the communal renewal of life and labour, where the "I-Thou" relation provides the ethical foundation for social transformation. Benjamin radicalizes this trajectory by articulating a revolutionary messianism in which redemption emerges through the interruption of historical continuity ("Jetztzeit") and the recovery of memory of oppressed people. Through this trajectory, the essay retraces a dialectic between restoration and revolution in which Jewish messianism and libertarian utopia converge as critical responses to modernity and alternative models of emancipation.



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