The Lions' Den : Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky / Susie Linfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linfield, Susie, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism--Philosophy.

Zionism.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Right and left (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political, the book includes philosophers, historians, journalists, and activists such as Hannah Arendt, Arthur Koestler, I. F. Stone, and Noam Chomsky. In their engagement with Zionism, these influential thinkers also wrestled with the twentieth century's most crucial political dilemmas: socialism, nationalism, democracy, colonialism, terrorism, and anti†'Semitism. In other words, in probing Zionism, they confronted the very nature of modernity and the often catastrophic histories of our time. By examining these leftist intellectuals, Linfield also seeks to understand how the contemporary Left has become focused on anti†'Zionism and how Israel itself has moved rightward.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: A Double Grief, and a Hope

PART ONE: EUROPEANS

PART TWO: SOCIALISTS

PART THREE: AMERICANS

Conclusion: The Genius for Failure

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-369) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

978-0-300-24519-6

0-300-24519-X

OCLC:

1089126322