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The Religious Genius in Rabbi Kook's Thought : National "Saint"? / Dov Schwartz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual HistoryPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781618114051
  • 9781618114068
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Methodology -- Chapter Two. The State of the Research -- Chapter Three: Moral Genius -- Chapter Four: Profile -- Chapter Five: Faculties -- Chapter Six: National Tasks -- Chapter Seven: Moral and Aesthetic Tasks -- Chapter Eight: Antinomianism -- Chapter Nine: Rabbi Kook as Religious Genius: Discussion -- Chapter Ten: Rabbi Kook as Religious Genius: Summation -- Appendix: On Rabbi Kook and Religious Zionist Thought -- Chapter Eleven: Rabbi Kook and the Revolutionary Consciousness of Religious Zionism -- Chapter Twelve: Maimonides in Rabbi Kook’s and Religious Zionist Philosophy: Unity vs. Duality -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Summary: The postmodernist experience is associated with a strong interest in the concepts of saints and religious genius. In this volume, Dov Schwartz considers the questions related to these ideas through his close analysis of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook. This figure is revered by Zionists as a founding father of the Zionist movement. Religious Zionists see him, additionally, as an unquestioned spiritual and altruistic authority with extraordinary halakhic, philosophical, and Kabbalistic intuitions. While Rabbi Kook has often been studied through historical and philosophical disciplines, this book addresses the degree to which his writings can prove to be beneficial to the postmodern discourse. It examines Rabbi Kook’s ideas in the religious Zionist context, analyzing the concept of the perfect man in Rabbi Kook's philosophy in light of the postmodern discourse on saints.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Methodology -- Chapter Two. The State of the Research -- Chapter Three: Moral Genius -- Chapter Four: Profile -- Chapter Five: Faculties -- Chapter Six: National Tasks -- Chapter Seven: Moral and Aesthetic Tasks -- Chapter Eight: Antinomianism -- Chapter Nine: Rabbi Kook as Religious Genius: Discussion -- Chapter Ten: Rabbi Kook as Religious Genius: Summation -- Appendix: On Rabbi Kook and Religious Zionist Thought -- Chapter Eleven: Rabbi Kook and the Revolutionary Consciousness of Religious Zionism -- Chapter Twelve: Maimonides in Rabbi Kook’s and Religious Zionist Philosophy: Unity vs. Duality -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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The postmodernist experience is associated with a strong interest in the concepts of saints and religious genius. In this volume, Dov Schwartz considers the questions related to these ideas through his close analysis of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook. This figure is revered by Zionists as a founding father of the Zionist movement. Religious Zionists see him, additionally, as an unquestioned spiritual and altruistic authority with extraordinary halakhic, philosophical, and Kabbalistic intuitions. While Rabbi Kook has often been studied through historical and philosophical disciplines, this book addresses the degree to which his writings can prove to be beneficial to the postmodern discourse. It examines Rabbi Kook’s ideas in the religious Zionist context, analyzing the concept of the perfect man in Rabbi Kook's philosophy in light of the postmodern discourse on saints.

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