The Jewish Question
The Jewish Question is an 1843 book by German historian and theologian Bruno Bauer, written and published in German.
Bauer argued that Jews can achieve political emancipation only if they relinquish their particular religious consciousness, since political emancipation requires a secular state, which he assumes does not leave any "space" for social identities such as religion. According to Bauer, such religious demands are incompatible with the idea of the "Rights of Man." True political emancipation, for Bauer, requires the abolition of religion. He described the contemporary concept of Jewish nationalism as "chimeral" and "baseless".
In his commentary On the Jewish Question also published in 1843, Karl Marx criticizes Bauer's book as well as "Die Fähigkeit der heutigen Juden und Christen, frei zu werden".
