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Moses Hess
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Moses Hess (1812–1875) was a German philosopher, politician, journalist, and writer. Born in Bonn, he received his education at the University of Bonn. He died in Paris and was buried in Cologne. Hess wrote in German, and his archives are held at the International Institute of Social History.
He is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron. While Open Library lists 51 works associated with him, Crossref records five.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1812
- Died
- 1875
- Works
- 51
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,364x
- GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free
· 2005 · cited 18,122x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- GROMACS 4: Algorithms for Highly Efficient, Load-Balanced, and Scalable Molecular Simulation
· 2008 · cited 15,029x
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Quotes
- “The vocation of man, as that of any other creature, is to be active in all his being. But man cannot act as an individual. The essence of his life activity is cooperation with other individuals of his species. Outside this cooperation, outside of society, man does not achieve any specific human activity. But so long as this co-operation is arbitrarily ruled by accidentality, so long as it is not organized, man remains limited and constricted in his life-activity....”
- “The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- 21 January 1812, Bonn , France
- Died
- 6 April 1875 (aged 63), Paris , France
- Resting place
- Kinneret Cemetery, Israel
- Spouse
- Sibylle Pesch
- Education
- University of Bonn
- School
- Young Hegelians , Socialism , Zionism
- Main interests
- Political philosophy
- Notable works
- Rome and Jerusalem: The Last National Question
- Notable ideas
- Labor Zionism
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Encyclopedic overview
Moses Hess (21 January 1812 – 6 April 1875) was a German-Jewish philosopher, a writer on socialism, and in later life, a forerunner of the political movement that became known as Zionism. His intellectual journey included significant contributions to the early development of socialist theory, and he was a close collaborator and an important influence on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In his later life, Hess's focus shifted towards Jewish nationalism, culminating in his seminal 1862 work, Rome and Jerusalem.
Born in the French-occupied Rhineland, Hess was raised in a traditional Jewish home but broke away in his youth to pursue a path of philosophy and radical politics. His first book, The Holy History of Mankind (1837), proposed a socialist society founded on a synthesis of Jewish and Christian ethics, mediated through the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. In the 1840s, he became a central figure among the Young Hegelians, where he developed a theory of "ethical socialism" and was one of the first thinkers in the German tradition to articulate a sophisticated theory of alienation rooted in social and economic conditions.
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