Zionism, Monotheism, and the Self: Abba Gordin’s Religioanarchist Reading of the Scriptures
The essay explores the writings of Abba Gordin, who utilized classical Jewish texts to establish a theory of inter-individualism in order to show that the anarchist divinization of the individual, based on the writings of Max Stirner, is deeply rooted in foundational Jewish literature. In the first...
| Published in: | Journal of ecumenical studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2022
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Journal of ecumenical studies
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism NBE Anthropology TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | The essay explores the writings of Abba Gordin, who utilized classical Jewish texts to establish a theory of inter-individualism in order to show that the anarchist divinization of the individual, based on the writings of Max Stirner, is deeply rooted in foundational Jewish literature. In the first part, we look at how Gordin combined a selection of biblical and rabbinic sources with German idealistic and neo-Kantian philosophy and appropriated the study of Torah as the spiritual study of the Self. In the second part, we look at the implications of a theory that centered the Self and its separateness and its consequences for Jewish nationalism, Zionism, and community-building. The preservation of separateness from political means was, in Gordin’s view, religious practice that aimed at a potential inter-individual society. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2022.0005 |