Where Community Happens : The Kibbutz and the Philosophy of Communalism.
Title:
Where Community Happens : The Kibbutz and the Philosophy of Communalism.
Author:
Near, Henry.
ISBN:
9783035301281
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Series:
Ralahine Utopian Studies ; v.9
Ralahine Utopian Studies
Contents:
Contents - ix -- Acknowledgements - xi -- Glossary of Hebrew Terms - xiii -- Foreword - xv -- Part One - The Collective Experience - 1 -- Chapter 1 - The Collective Experience: Universal and Particular - 3 -- Chapter 2 - Christians and Others - 17 -- Chapter 3 - I, Thou, We: Buber's Theory of Community and the Kibbutz - 31 -- Chapter 4 - Ben Gurion as Philosopher: Equality and Partnership - 59 -- Part Two - Utopianism and Post-Utopianism - 67 -- Chapter 5 - Utopian and Post-Utopian Thought: The Kibbutz Model - 69 -- Chapter 6 - Utopia Reconsidered: The Agrarian Ethos, Then and Now - 101 -- Chapter 7 - Post-Utopian Women: Changing Concepts of Gender Equalityin the Kibbutz - 109 -- Part Three Pioneering - 119 -- Chapter 8 - The Concept of Pioneering in Zionist Thought - 121 -- Chapter 9 - Frontiersmen and Halutzim: The Image of the Pioneer in Palestine/Israel and the US - 141 -- Chapter 10 - Youth Movements and the Kibbutz - 169 -- Part Four Looking Outwards - 195 -- Chapter 11 - Paths to Utopia: The Kibbutz as a Movement for Social Change - 197 -- Afterword - 219 -- Works Cited - 223 -- Index of Concepts and Places - 233 -- Index of Names - 237.
Abstract:
In reaction to the spread of globalization, recent years have seen considerable growth in the number of intentional communities established across the world. In this collection of articles and lectures, many of them previously unpublished in English, the author analyzes various aspects of the philosophy of the kibbutz and draws parallels with other societies and philosophical trends, in the hope that a close look at the ways of thought of the kibbutz - arguably the best-established communalist society - may help other communalists crystallize their own social philosophies. Utopian thought and communal experience are brought to life through the extensive use of the voices of some of the most influential thinkers and kibbutz members of the past hundred years, including Martin Buber and David Ben Gurion.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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