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Quest for Life : A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature / Yossi Turner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and KabbalahPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (174 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781644693124
  • 9781644693131
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181/.06 23
LOC classification:
  • DS151.G6 T87 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction, Historical and Biographical Background -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: A Quest for Life: Historical and Biographical Background -- Part II. Philosophy and Life: Nature, Society, and the Question of Ecological Responsibility -- Introduction -- Chapter III: Gordon’s Philosophy as a Response to Kant, Nietzsche, and Marx -- Chapter IV: The Foundations of A. D. Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature: Life, Self, and Experience -- Chapter V: Critique of Society and Civilization -- Chapter VI: Religion, Family, and the Ethic of Ecological Responsibility -- Part III. Life and Praxis -- Introduction -- Chapter VII: The National Self in Aḥad Ha’am, Brenner, and Gordon -- Chapter VIII: Self-Realization as Self-Education -- Chapter IX: Freedom and Equality in Gordon’s Ideas on the Founding of a Workers’ Settlement -- Part IV. National Individuality, Social Justice, and the Prospects of a Universal Humanity -- Introduction -- Chapter X: Zionism and Diaspora Jewry -- Chapter XI: Jews and Arabs -- Chapter XII: National Individuality as a Condition of Universal Humanity -- Part V -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Contemporary Repercussions -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names and Places
Summary: Quest for Life: A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature is a study of the life and work of one of the most interesting, original and creative Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Among its various goals, this work is intended to familiarize the English reading public with Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the Land of Israel, in Hebrew. Following previous scholarship, it demonstrates the role played by the experience of the pioneering community in Israel in the early 1900s in the development of Gordon’s thought. But it intends, even beyond this particular historical context, to examine its repercussions with respect to contemporary civilization. In this context, the present work suggests the “quest for life,” embedded in the philosophical writings of labor pioneer and philosopher Aharon David Gordon, as the basis for a possible re-evaluation of such topics as the meaning of human life, Jewish peoplehood and alternative approaches to the idea of a Jewish homeland and the State of Israel.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction, Historical and Biographical Background -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: A Quest for Life: Historical and Biographical Background -- Part II. Philosophy and Life: Nature, Society, and the Question of Ecological Responsibility -- Introduction -- Chapter III: Gordon’s Philosophy as a Response to Kant, Nietzsche, and Marx -- Chapter IV: The Foundations of A. D. Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature: Life, Self, and Experience -- Chapter V: Critique of Society and Civilization -- Chapter VI: Religion, Family, and the Ethic of Ecological Responsibility -- Part III. Life and Praxis -- Introduction -- Chapter VII: The National Self in Aḥad Ha’am, Brenner, and Gordon -- Chapter VIII: Self-Realization as Self-Education -- Chapter IX: Freedom and Equality in Gordon’s Ideas on the Founding of a Workers’ Settlement -- Part IV. National Individuality, Social Justice, and the Prospects of a Universal Humanity -- Introduction -- Chapter X: Zionism and Diaspora Jewry -- Chapter XI: Jews and Arabs -- Chapter XII: National Individuality as a Condition of Universal Humanity -- Part V -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Contemporary Repercussions -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names and Places

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Quest for Life: A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature is a study of the life and work of one of the most interesting, original and creative Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Among its various goals, this work is intended to familiarize the English reading public with Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the Land of Israel, in Hebrew. Following previous scholarship, it demonstrates the role played by the experience of the pioneering community in Israel in the early 1900s in the development of Gordon’s thought. But it intends, even beyond this particular historical context, to examine its repercussions with respect to contemporary civilization. In this context, the present work suggests the “quest for life,” embedded in the philosophical writings of labor pioneer and philosopher Aharon David Gordon, as the basis for a possible re-evaluation of such topics as the meaning of human life, Jewish peoplehood and alternative approaches to the idea of a Jewish homeland and the State of Israel.

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