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Now it is possible to thoroughly explicate Erich Fromm’s prophetic messianism. It differs significantly from the perspectives examined in Chapter 2, especially the catastrophic or apocalyptic messianism of Gershom Scholem and even from the optimistic Marxist messianism of Ernst Bloch, with Bloch’s stress on “rupture” and the future as absolute Novum
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Braune, J. (2014). Fromm’s Concepts of Prophetic and Catastrophic Messianism. In: Erich Fromm’s Revolutionary Hope. Imagination and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-812-1_4
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