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Modern Gnosis and Zionism - The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought (Paperback)
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Modern Gnosis and Zionism - The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German
intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the
rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief
in the existence of a radical 'cultural crisis'. One response to
this crisis was the emergence of 'Life Philosophy', which
celebrated the irrational, expressive, instinctive and spontaneous,
while rejecting the rational, conscious, and logical. Around the
same time and place, Zionist thought crystallized. It discussed
issues like the 'Jewish essence', the creation of a new Jewish
person and a new Jewish community, return to the Jewish homeland,
and the negation of the diasporic way of life. This book explores
the connections between Zionism and Life Philosophy, and argues
that Life Philosophy represents a modern secularized version of
gnostic dualism between God and world, and that this was a
particular secular impulse that lay at the core of the Zionist
political mission. Consisting of two main sections, the book first
shows the manner in which Life Philosophy should be understood as a
modern, secularized, gnostic theology, before concluding by
discussing its political Zionist interpretation. Drawing on
published works of a wide range of thinkers and intellectuals,
alongside a variety of unpublished materials, this book will be
welcomed by students and scholars of Jewish studies, the philosophy
of Judaism, and religion and philosophy more generally.
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