In Search of a Messianic Time: Jewish Messianism from Franz Rosenzweig to Zvi Yehuda Kook
| Thesis title in Czech: | Hledání mesiášského času: Židovský mesianismus od Franze Rosenzweiga po Cvi Jehudu Kooka |
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| Thesis title in English: | In Search of a Messianic Time: Jewish Messianism from Franz Rosenzweig to Zvi Yehuda Kook |
| Key words: | Rosenzweig|Benjamin|Ben-Gurion|Guš Emunim|Cvi Jehuda Kook|mesianismus|čas|historie |
| English key words: | Rosenzweig|Benjamin|Ben-Gurion|Gush Emunim|Zvi Yehuda Kook|messianism|time|history |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2023/2024 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Political Science (21-UPOL) |
| Supervisor: | prof. Dr. Pavel Barša, M.A., Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 06.01.2024 |
| Date of assignment: | 08.01.2024 |
| Administrator's approval: | approved |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 08.01.2024 |
| Submitted/finalized: | no |
| Guidelines |
| This thesis will explore modern Jewish messianism and its elements in 20th-century political thought with a focus on four authors. It will discuss two German-Jewish thinkers Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin, who represent ideas infused with messianism from the position of the Jewish exile. Additionally, the thesis will focus on the Zionist movement and will examine the messianic elements in the thought of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and the messianic vision of Tzvi Yehuda Kook, the leading figure of the ultra-nationalist settler movement Gush Emunim. Specifically, the thesis will investigate how these authors perceive time and history. Traditionally, Jewish messianism often involved passively awaiting the arrival of the Messiah, but this perception shifted in the 20th century due to the altered perception of time and history within the European context. Both in theory and practice, messianism became a means by which one can transform the world around them. |
| References |
| BENJAMIN, W. Gesammelte Schriften Bd. 1 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991). BENJAMIN, W. Gesammelte Schriften Bd. 2. (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991). BEN-GURION, D. Israel, a Personal History (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1971). MOSÈS, S. The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009). ROSENZWEIG, G. Der Mensch und sein Werk: Gesammelte Schriften, Briefe und Tagebücher, 1900–1918 (Springer science, 1979). SEGEV, Tom. A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion, (London: Head of Zeus, 2019). |