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There has been growing scholarly attention to questions about the revival of religion and religiosity on global social, cultural and political fronts and the emergence of a post-secular society. New Social Foundations for Education is dedicated to the drawing of the implications of the contemporary post-secular social transformation for education. Though the question of the post-secular stands at the focal point of a wide range of academic debates and discussions, within educational discourse it has not received close scholarly attention. This volume aims to correct this lack by...

This text explores the connections between Zionism and life philosophy, and argues that life philosophy represents a modern secularized version of gnostic dualism between God and world, and that this was a particular secular impulse that lay at the core of the Zionist political mission.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical `cultural crisis'. One response to this crisis was the emergence of `Life Philosophy', which celebrated the irrational, expressive, instinctive and spontaneous, while rejecting the rational, conscious, and logical. Around the same time and place, Zionist thought crystallized. It discussed issues like the `Jewish essence', the creation of a new Jewish person and a new Jewish...