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Thank you for sharing this. Apart from some people mentioning that this has happened it wasn't something I was aware of (like basically everything on this topic) so it really helped me put the preface in perspective.
It is a very curious thing and found this sentence very interesting:
This sounds exactly like the people he mocks in his preface. I still found it very useful, but I see why people wanted it removed.
I don't think I realized the kind of celebrity that the philosopher or others of that era had, because to me they are dead authors who only exist in their books. People need to be careful about putting anyone on a pedestal, because all humans are flawed and disappointing. It's very interesting to see that play out almost 60 years ago. (I know that's not so long ago but think of how far we've come technologically, and yet we still struggle with the same things.)
Also extremely interesting in light of the content of the preface!
Yeah, I don't think there is any way forward with the existence of a "Jewish" state no matter what that is supposed to mean, I think state hood and Judaism is incongruous as Judaism is a religion about life and states are about death and violence. It is sad that this wasn't more obvious to people even in 1948