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The Religious Genius in Rabbi Kook's Thought: National Saint?

The Religious Genius in Rabbi Kook's Thought: National Saint?

Levin, Edward
Schwartz, Dov

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Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History

Literary CriticismJudaismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1618114115
ISBN13: 9781618114112
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Dec 15 2015
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The postmodernist experience is associated with a strong interest in the concepts of saints and religious genius. In this volume, Dov Schwartz considers the questions related to these ideas through his close analysis of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook. This figure is revered by Zionists as a founding father of the Zionist movement. Religious Zionists see him, additionally, as an unquestioned spiritual and altruistic authority with extraordinary halakhic, philosophical, and Kabbalistic intuitions. While Rabbi Kook has often been studied through historical and philosophical disciplines, this book addresses the degree to which his writings can prove to be beneficial to the postmodern discourse. It examines Rabbi Kook's ideas in the religious Zionist context, analyzing the concept of the perfect man in Rabbi Kook's philosophy in light of the postmodern discourse on saints.

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