On Thomas Münzer as Theologian of Revolution: Theology and Politics in Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin (1920-1921)
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This work aims to analyze the relationship between theology and politics in the thought of Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin, particularly in the early twenties, a period in which both find in messianism a political response to the crisis faced by Germany. The framework for discussion arises from Bloch's Thomas Münzer as Theologian of Revolution [1921], in order to compare it with Benjamin's writings of the period. I will examine the hypothesis that his re-appropriations of messianism converge in his considerations about history, although they do not obstruct their differences in relation to the historical subject; these translate into political distances that account for the heterogeneous scenario within the german left in the period 1920-1921.
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