Quest for Life

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction: Historical and Biographical Background

1. Introduction
2. A Quest for Life: Historical and Biographical Background

Part Two: Philosophy and Life—Nature, Society, and the Question of Ecological Responsibility

3. Gordon’s Philosophy as a Response to Kant, Nietzsche, and Marx
4. The Foundations of A. D. Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature: Life, Self, and Experience
5. Critique of Society and Civilization
6. Religion, Family, and the Ethic of Ecological Responsibility

Part Three: Life and Praxis

7. The National “Self” in Aḥad Ha’am, Brenner, and Gordon
8. Self-Realization as Self-Education
9. Freedom and Equality in Gordon’s Ideas on the Founding of a Workers’ Settlement

Part Four: National Individuality, Social Justice, and the Prospects of a Universal Humanity

10. Zionism and Diaspora Jewry
11. Jews and Arabs
12. National Individuality as a Condition of Universal Humanity

Part Five: Conclusion

13. A Critical Summary

Postscript: Contemporary Repercussions

14. The Malaise of Modernity: Durkheim and Taylor Versus Dewey

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