Political Discourse in Exile Karl Marx and the by Dennis Fischman HARDBACK

Political Discourse in ExileKarl Marx and the Jewish Question\nAuthor(s): Dennis Fischman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9780870237461, 978-0870237461\nSynopsis\nOver the years, Karl Marx's tangled relation with Judaism has provoked heated debate among followers and critics alike. Can the Jewish tradition better help us understand Marx's political theory? Which themes in Marx's writings become clearer when read in a Jewish context? In this provocative book, Dennis Fischman addresses these questions by showing how Marx's work, from his doctoral dissertation to \""\""Capital\""\"", resounds with the characteristic concerns of Jewish thought. Fischman identifies three key elements that Marx's theory shares with Judaism: its ontology, its use of texts, and its conception of reality underlying Marx's writings and that of the Hebrew Bible, including the notion that human beings are obliged by .