Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 42 No. 4, 2022.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi42406
Prophets of the Jewish Counterculture – Martin Buber, Erich Fromm, and Abraham Joshua Heschel
Domagoj Akrap
orcid.org/0009-0007-7691-8386
; Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, AT–1010 Wien
Abstract
The text deals with the emergence of a specific Jewish counterculture in the wake of the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement in the USA in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, Erich Fromm’s humanism and the religious existentialism of Abraham Joshua Heschel had a significant impact on the ideas of the young Jewish generation and influenced their striving for a renewal of Jewish life. Although the three Jewish thinkers differed in their forms of expression, they had in common a relentless critique of existing state of affairs and fought for a just society. Whether it be Buber’s communitarian society, Fromm’s humanist socialism or Heschel’s free society imbued with religion – they offered answers to the frustrated young generation and pointed the way to the “spiritual revolution” they longed for. Thus they became prophets for them.
Keywords
Jewish thought; counterculture; United States of America; Martin Buber; Erich Fromm; Abraham Joshua Heschel
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303615
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Publication date:
28.12.2022.
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