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- This is a realistic account of how human beings move through periods of radical social change. The story was an inspiration for the civil rights movement, and the civil rights movement was a great achievement for—a liberation for America.
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Unlike narratives of recurrence and return, the Exodus story is linear, Walzer says, and moves from bond age and oppression in Egypt, through the wanderings in. Sinai, to the Promised Land. Moses is not an Odysseus who returns home, but a popular leader-albeit an out.
In this messianic paradigm, there is the possibility of a radical end to the slow historical progression of change. Walzer highlights how post-1967 Zionism adopted this messianic politics and, with it, moved toward an absolute politics that clashes with the message of the Exodus narrative.
Dec 12, 2020 · English. xii, 177 pages ; 22 cm. Examines the biblical story of the Exdous and shows its part in shaping Western political thought and action. Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-167) and index.
Exodus & Revolution. Michael Walzer. Basic Books, Feb 10, 1985 - History - 177 pages. Noted political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of...
- the University of Michigan
- Michael Walzer
- Basic Books, 1985
MICHAEL WALZER "gcoolly anticipates by a decade Kahane's bloody cries of 'They must go,'" and so provides evidence for my parochial national ism and triumphalism, the extent to which I have forgotten the "Canaanites" of the world. The reference here is to an essay that I published in Dissent (Summer 1972) on "Nation alism, Internationalism, and ...
Walzer's Exodus and Revolution shows that the Exodus story, one of oppression that leads to struggle that leads to freedom (however imperfect) is the prototype for all Western revolution. He also shows that it is not necessarily the paradigm for struggles in other parts of the world.
Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution" In The New Jewish Canon edited by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin, 3-9. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2020. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2020.
