Return to the Promised Land.: The Birth and Philosophical Foundations of Zionism

ISBN-13: 9783631812952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str.

Jan Burzynski;Jacek Surzyn

Opis

The book analyses the ideological and philosophical basis of Zionism, i.e. how Zionism solved the most important problems of Jews in the last decades of the 19th century: the problem of assimilation, the philosophical principles of national identity, the idea of self-liberation and the conception of the Jewish state. Another problem discussed in this book is how the religious idea of "Return to Zion" became both philosophical and political goals. All considerations are based on the analysis of the source texts of the protagonists and founders of Zionism (Hess, Pinsker, Herzl and Nordau). Zionism is also shown in the perspective of its strength and weakness, as well as its importance for Jewishness in general.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter I.

Moses Hess and the Shabbat of History

Messianic Mission

New Anti-Semitism

Jews as Revivers of the Nations

Judaism: Religion of the Future

The Basis of the Jewish Reform

Historic Mission of Jews

The Project of the Jewish State

Chapter II.

Leo Pinsker and the Jewish Self-Emancipation

Pinsker's Path to Emancipation

The Issue of the "Jewish Question"

Jews as a Nation

Anti-Semitism and Its Philosophical Basis

The Project of Self-Emancipation

Chapter III.

Theodor Herzl: We want to have our state!

New Jewish Politics and Philosophy

The Zionist Idea: A Philosophical Utopia?

The "Jewish Question"

Solution to the "Jewish Question"

New Anti-Semitism

The Jewish State: The Plan

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Chapter IV.

Max Nordau: We, the Jewish Nation

The Jewish People

The Jewish Patriotism

Anti-Semitism Against the Jews

Zionism: New Jewish Philosophy

The Final Solution to the "Jewish Question"

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of names

Index of subjects

O autorze

Jacek Surzyn is a Polish philosopher, author and translator and professor at Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków (Poland). He researches the ontology, theology and political philosophy of Judaism and Zionism. He also translates philosophical and political texts. As a publicist, he is engaged in the issues of Palestinian-Israeli conflict and modern anti-Semitism.