The Religious Genius in Rabbi Kook's Thought

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Dov Schwartz

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Hardback

Series:

Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History

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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.

Author Biography:

Dov Schwartz, a former Dean of Humanities at Bar Ilan University, Israel and head of the departments of Philosophy and of Music, currently heads its interdisciplinary unit, and holds the Natalie and Isidore Friedman Chair for Teaching Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Thought.

Release date Australia

September 18th, 2014

Author

Dov Schwartz

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Edward Levin

Pages

228

Series

Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History

Dimensions

156x234x14

ISBN-13

9781618114051

Product ID

22488118

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