Bruno Bauer, "La questione ebraica", a cura di Giovanni Bonacina, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019

The new Italian edition of Bruno Bauer’s politically uncorrect The Jewish Question (1843), edited by Giovanni Bonacina, stands out both for its accurate translation and its learned introductory essay, which situates the pamphlet within Bauer’s intellectual development and the heated debates on Jewish emancipation in Pre-March Germany. While showing that Bauer’s critical stance against Jewish religion, culture, and ‘nationalism’ is not to be derived neither from Hegel nor from the radical intellectual circles he belonged to, Bonacina points out that the Judenfrage succeeded in confounding the liberal supporters of Jewish emancipation because of its challenging thesis that discriminated minorities may in turn be a hindrance to human progress.