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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical 'cultural crisis'. One response to this crisis was the emergence of 'Life Philosophy', which celebrated the irrational, expressive, instinctive and spontaneous, while rejecting the rational, conscious, and logical. Around the same time and place, Zionist thought crystallized. It discussed issues like the 'Jewish essence', the creation of a new Jewish person and a new Jewish

This article characterizes the modern Jewish debate around Zionism as a profound political theological controversy by juxtaposing the works of two significant twentieth-century Jewish scholars, Jakob Klatzkin (1882–1948) and Hans Jonas (1903–1993). While Klatzkin campaigned for Zionism as Gnosticism, Jonas critically challenged this link in his writings from the 1950s and 1960s. In presenting a theological reading of modern Jewish secular thought, the article transcends the political controversy between Zionists and Post-Zionists of the recent decades and proposes a new horizon in the study of Jewish modern-secular thought.

The following paper elaborates on the compound character and the importance of an intellectual discussion regarding Modernity, secularisation and theology that raged within a cluster of German scholars during the 1950s and 1960s (Hans Jonas (1903-93), Hans Blumenberg (1920-96), Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) and Eric Voegelin (1901-85)). It argues that these scholars were united discursively owing to the appearance of the concept of Gnosis in their postwar debate. Challenging the thesis of Karl Lowith (1897-1973), in which he defined Modernity as secularised Christian theology, they connected Modernity with the Gnostic theology. By innovatively returning to late antiquity and re-introducing the obscure Gnostic theology, these scholars interwove the intellectual debates of the early twentieth century - in which the concept of Gnosis was redefined - into an acute post-1945 moral crisis, in order to make a case either for or against Modernity. Adapted from the source document.

Hauptbeschreibung: Zur Jahrhundertwende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert bildete sich unter dem Eindruck der Krise des Bürgertums und der Bürgerlichkeit ein neuer Jugendbegriff im deutschsprachigen Raum Mitteleuropas. Ein deutlicher Ausdruck des neuen Jugendideals waren die nun entstehende Jugendbewegung und die daraus hervorgehenden spezifischen Jugendkulturen, die bis heute fortwirken. Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit dem deutsch-jüdischen Ausdruck und der besonderen deutsch-jüdischen Interpretation der Jugendbewegungsformel. Der erste Teil ist theoretischen Fragen gewidmet, die im Zusammenhang mit