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Modern Gnosis and Zionism
The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought
Routledge Jewish Studies Series
Author: Hotam Yotam
Language: EnglishSubject for Modern Gnosis and Zionism:
Keywords
life; philosophy; zionist; thought; gnostic; heresy; political; theology; gnosticism; theodor; Modern Gnosis; Modern Gnosticism; Young Man; Cultural Law; Jewish Element; Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise; Theological World View; Halakhic Law; Gnostic Heresy; Halakhic Life; Zionist Thought; Zionist Thinkers; Jewish Youth Movement; Zionist Argument; Judeo Christian Theology; Brit Shalom; Gnostic Theology; Life Philosophy; Antisemitic Interpretation; Hebrew Language; Transcendent God; Jewish Existence; Gnostic Cosmology; German Cultural Sphere; National Beings
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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Drawing on published works of a wide range of thinkers and intellectuals, alongside a variety of unpublished materials, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Jewish studies, the philosophy of Judaism, and religion and philosophy more generally.
Introduction Part I: The Crisis of Culture and Life Philosophy 1. Germany, the Crisis of Culture and Secular Theology 2. Life Philosophy or Modern Gnosis Part II: Modern Gnosis and Zionist Thought 3. Modern Jewish Gnosis 4. Modern Gnosis and Zionist Thought
Yotam Hotam is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa, Israel.