Quest for Life : : A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature / / Yossi Turner.
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 G...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (174 p.) |
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Table of 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