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The Political Philosophy of Zionism

Trading Jewish Words for a Hebraic Land

By: Eyal Chowers

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The Political Philosophy of Zionism

Trading Jewish Words for a Hebraic Land

By: Eyal Chowers

Zionism emerged at the end of the nineteenth century in response to a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe and to the crisis of modern Jewish identity. This novel, national revolution aimed to unite a scattered community, defined mainly by shared texts and literary tradition, into a vibrant political entity destined for the Holy Land. However, Zionism was about much more than a national political ideology and practice. By tracing its origins in the context of a European history of ideas and by considering the writings of key Jewish and Hebrew writers and thinkers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book offers an entirely new philosophical perspective on Zionism as a unique movement based on intellectual boldness and belief in human action. In counter-distinction to the studies of history and ideology that dominate the field, this book also offers a new way of reflecting upon contemporary Israeli politics.

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The Modern Self in the Labyrinth

Politics and the Entrapment Imagination

By: Eyal Chowers

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The Modern Self in the Labyrinth

Politics and the Entrapment Imagination

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This book explores the distinct historical-political imagination of the self in the twentieth century and advances two arguments. First, it suggests that we should read the history of modern political philosophy afresh in light of a theme that emerges in the late eighteenth century: the rift between self and social institutions. Second, it argues that this rift was reformulated in the twentieth century in a manner that contrasts with the optimism of nineteenth-century thinkers regarding its resolution. It proposes a new political imagination of the twentieth century found in the works of Weber, Freud, and Foucault, and characterizes it as one of "entrapment." Eyal Chowers shows how thinkers working within diverse theoretical frameworks and fields nevertheless converge in depicting a self that has lost its capacity to control or transform social institutions. He argues that Weber, Freud, and Foucault helped shape the distinctive thought and culture of the past century by portraying a dehumanized and distorted self marked by sameness. This new political imagination proposes coping with modernity through the recovery, integration, and assertion of the self, rather than by mastering and refashioning collective institutions.

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The Political Philosophy of Zionism

Trading Jewish Words for a Hebraic Land

By: Eyal Chowers

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Trading Jewish Words for a Hebraic Land

By: Eyal Chowers

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The Modern Self in the Labyrinth

Politics and the Entrapment Imagination

By: Eyal Chowers

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Politics and the Entrapment Imagination

By: Eyal Chowers

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The Political Philosophy of Zionism

The Political Philosophy of Zionism

The Modern Self in the Labyrinth

The Modern Self in the Labyrinth

The Political Philosophy of Zionism

The Political Philosophy of Zionism

The Modern Self in the Labyrinth

The Modern Self in the Labyrinth

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