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Where community happens : the kibbutz and the philosophy of communalism / Henry Near.
LIBRA HX742.2.A3 N34 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Near, Henry.
- Series:
- Ralahine utopian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kibbutzim--History.
- Kibbutzim.
- History.
- Kibbutzim--Social conditions.
- Collective settlements--History.
- Collective settlements.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 238 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.
- Contents:
- Part 1 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 2 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 Equality in the Kibbutz 109
- Part 3 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 4 Looking Outwards 195
- Chapter 11 Paths to Utopia: The Kibbutz as a Movement for Social Change 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3034301332
- 9783034301336
- OCLC:
- 696318438
- Publisher Number:
- 99943811096
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