Zionism and Judaism : a new theory /
"Why should anyone be a Zionist, a supporter of a Jewish state in the land of Israel? Why should there be a Jewish state in the land of Israel? This book seeks to provide a philosophical answer to these questions. Although a Zionist need not be Jewish, nonetheless this book argues that Zionism...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Why Zionism?
- Introduction
- Political Rhetoric
- Psychological Motivation
- Jewish Celebration/Jewish Commemoration
- Reasons of the Commandments
- Four Kinds of Jews
- Four Kinds of Non-Jews
- 2. Was Spinoza the First Zionist?
- Ben-Gurion and Spinoza
- Spinoza's Inversions of Classical Jewish Theology
- The Proto-Zionist Statement
- Spinoza's Old-New Judaism
- Spinoza and the Zionist Dilemma
- 3. Secular Zionism: Political or Cultural?
- Secular Zionism
- Political Zionism
- Cultural Zionism
- Hebrew Jurisprudence
- 4. Should Israel Be a Theocracy?
- What Is Theocracy?
- The Primacy of Theology
- God Chooses to Create the Universe as God's Possession
- God Chooses to Create the Human Person
- 5. Why the Jews and Why the Land of Israel?
- God Chooses Israel
- God Chooses the Land of Israel
- 6. Can the State of Israel Be Both Jewish and Democratic?
- Jewish Religion and Secular Law.
- The Problem with Current Israeli Secularism
- Principled Agreement
- Whose Democracy?
- Divinely Sanctioned Secularity
- Authentic Jewish Secularity
- The Commandment to Acquire and Settle the Land
- A Communal Obligation
- Human Volition
- 7. What Could Be the Status of Non-Jews in a Jewish State?
- Rethinking the Status of Non-Jews
- The Resident-Alien
- The Equalization of Civil Rights
- Potential Jews
- Non-Jewish Autonomy
- Right and Might
- 8. What Is the Connection Between the Holocaust and the State of Israel?
- Historical and Political Sequences
- Holocaust Theologies
- Messianic Theologies
- Theory and Praxis
- Another Messianism.