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...

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Auteur principal: Türk, Lilian (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: University of Pennsylvania Press 2022
Dans: Journal of ecumenical studies
Année: 2022, Volume: 57, Numéro: 1, Pages: 58-76
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
BH Judaïsme
NBE Anthropologie
TK Époque contemporaine
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2162-3937
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2022.0005