Book, Heterodox Jews: messianism, romanticism, utopia[LS]

This work is the continuation of the research I began with the publication, in 1988, of the book 'Rédemption et Utopie'. But, whereas that book was an attempt at mapping Judeo-romantic culture in central Europe, with its different poles and underground currents, Heterodox Jews is, rather, a laboratory, a collection of work undertaken over the course of the last twenty years. , a set of case studies without the ambition of systematization. The 'terrain' is essentially the same: the Jewish culture of Mitteleuropa (central Europe) at the beginning of the 20th century - with one exception: Bernard Lazare, French romantic and libertarian writer -, just as I try to capture the approach taken in the elective affinities between romanticism , messianism and utopia. However, the main axis that structures the investigations in this book is the comparison, the 'crossed thoughts' between two authors, at the same time close and separate, convergent and divergent, similar, but, nevertheless, irreducibly different.