Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought 1136190716, 9781136190711

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust i

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Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought
1136190716, 9781136190711

Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site in the project of modernity, this book e

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