History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought

Gilad Sharvit’s recent book, Dynamic Repetition (2022), proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German Jewish thought.

The author will speak with Amir Engel and Birgit R. Erdle about the complexities of Jewish messianism in modernity, focusing on works of Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, and Sigmund Freud, and their interrelations with basic trajectories of twentieth-century philosophy and critical thought.

Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/ASaJMrsIZAY