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Chapters in Religious Zionist Aesthetics

Dov Schwartz

Aesthetic creativity is an important expression of the human spirit, and the contact between it and religiosity and nationalism is both fascinating and impressive. This essay deals with aesthetic trends in religious Zionist thought. It moves in several axes. One axis is thematic: the essay presents a fluctuation from the analysis of philosophical concepts to the analysis of literary works written by the writers of the movement. The second axis is chronological: the essay opens with religious Zionist concepts formulated during the founding period of the movement and continues with the analysis of aesthetic creativity in recent years. A third axis is disciplinary: the essay moves from the philosophical to the social, and reflects the aesthetic mindset in religious Zionism throughout its years of existence.

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Danacode: 110-20338 ISBN: 978-965-226-614-9 Language: Hebrew Pages: 368 Weight: 800 gr Dimensions: 17X24 cm Publication Date: 09/2022 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

CONTENTS

Foreword 7

Part 1: Basics 13

Chapter 1: Prologue – Aesthetics and Philosophy in Religious Zionism in the Land of Israel 15

Chapter 2: Competing with Aesthetics and Aesthetic Personality in Eliezer Meir Lifshitz’s (Re’em) Writings 71

Chapter 3: Two Moments of Religious Nationality, Its Roots and Its Seal in Literature 103

Part 2: Branches 141

Chapter 4: On Religious National Poetry 143

Chapter 5: Mirror Image – Ex-Religious and Unlabeled Face their Past: Religious Zionism in the Prism of Fiction Outside the Camp and on Its Fringes 169

Part 3: Viewpoints 285

Chapter 6: An Aesthetics and Religious Zionism: An Unfinished Story 287

Conclusion 337

Bibliography 339

Indexes 349

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