Examines Israeli identity by exploring its historical narratives, such as crusader and Canaanite challenges, and proposes a new meta-narrative - Mediterraneanism.
Examines Israeli identity by exploring its historical narratives, such as crusader and Canaanite challenges, and proposes a new meta-narrative - Mediterraneanism.
Professor David Ohana studies modern European and Jewish history. His affiliations have included the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Sorbonne, Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. He is a full professor of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Ohana earned his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and has been a senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, where he founded and directed the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures. Since 2000, he has been a Fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism. Ohana's research areas include the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe, political philosophy, comparative study of national myths, Mediterranean studies, Zionist ideology and Israeli identity. He has written and edited numerous books in Hebrew, English and French. Among the books he has written are The Last Israelis (1998), A Humanist in the Sun: Camus and the Mediterranean Inspiration (2000), The Promethean Passion: The Intellectual Origins of the Twentieth Century from Rousseau to Foucault (2000), The Rage of the Intellectuals: Political Radicalism and Social Criticism in Europe and Israel (2005), The Myth of Niobe (2009), a trilogy The Nihilist Order (2009) and Political Theologies in the Holy Land: Israeli Messianism and its Critics (2010).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. The Promethean Hebrew 3. The Canaanite challenge 4. The nativist theology 5. The crusader anxiety 6. The Mediterranean option 7. Epilogue: looking out to sea.
1. Introduction 2. The Promethean Hebrew 3. The Canaanite challenge 4. The nativist theology 5. The crusader anxiety 6. The Mediterranean option 7. Epilogue: looking out to sea.
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