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In a century that has witnessed the collapse of great ideologies, messianism seems to hold strong in the face of all adversity. By re-examining their traditional texts in the light of contemporary philosophies, Jewish thinkers have taken up this idea anew, analysing its impact and its excesses. Messianism - an idea that still affects history to the point of being subjected to scathing denials an idea that still enriches history clandestinely by evoking utopias an idea conceived and lived as the anticipation of promised deliverance, of a redemption that may be sudden or gradual. But messianism is also an idea that implies the end of one nation's domination over another, so bringing peace and brotherhood to humanity.