14. Karl Marx and the Socialist Revolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The Subversive Background of a Revolutionary Thinker 30
7. 2. Spinoza and the Origins of the Modern Revolutionary Consciousness (1650–1677) 61
8. 3. Orobio de Castro and the Enlightenment Myth of the Sephardic Universal Iconoclast 86
9. 4. The Destabilizing Reverberations of the Early Haskalah 124
10. 5. Maimon’s Rebellion and Mendelssohn’s Dilemma (1770–1800) 149
11. 6. David Nassy’s New World Vistas (1770–1790) 173
12. 7. Zalkind Hourwitz (1751–1812) and the “Great Revolution” 195
13. 8. Jewish Revolutionaries and the Terror (1793–1794) 232
14. 9. Remaking the New World (1790–1820) 263
15. 10. The Dissident Jews of Felix Libertate (1787–1800) 289
16. 11. Napoleon and the Jews (1796–1815) 311
17. 12. Heine, Börne and the Post-Napoleonic Jewish Revolutionary Tradition (1810–1840) 335
18. 13. Moses Hess (1812–1875) and “The New Jerusalem” 377
19. 14. Karl Marx and the Socialist Revolution 399
20. Conclusion: Jewish Revolutionaries, 1650–1850 428
21. Notes 451
22. Bibliography 499
23. Index 533
24. The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies 550