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Gaining clarity: after postmodernism

Gaining clarity: after postmodernism
By Bambi Sheleg  |  10/12/2009
Perhaps it was the war in Iraq that made it unequivocally and absolutely clear that the events of September 11 had changed the face of the earth, and that nothing would again return to what it had been.

Three generations and postmodernism
By Moran Peled  |  10/12/2009
Are postmodernist concepts, which are currently intensely present in our lives, no more than an expression of a conceptual position that belongs to a very particular previous generation? Have the conditions ripened for the creation of an updated new modern philosophy? Moran Peled speaks with Yirmiyahu Yovel, Adi Ophir ...

In Condemnation of Ideologies and in Praise of Values
By Yair Sheleg  |  10/12/2009
Post-modernism is a blessing when it leads to a sober view of reality that at the same time is not blinded to the "behind the scenes" of the large ideologies. But this is on condition that the result does not involve relinquishing ethically-based action, and rather leads to a better understanding of the insig...

The Thirst for Classical Works
By Arik Glasner  |  10/12/2009
“It has finally come time to speak clearly about the sociopsychology of the reader. Postmodernist literature displays a casual style and a dark nihilistic, carnivalesque gaiety, in contrast with modernism's request for precision and truth. It is this dark carnivalesque gaiety that is suited to a particular kind of...

Monotheism in Judaism as a Harbinger of Science
By Ilya Leibowitz  |  10/12/2009
This article offers a certain interpretation of an ancient Jewish text, in which the text indicates a failing in the picture of the world presented by nonscientific approaches to explain the world. The essay includes the conception that the negation of polytheism is the most important element of monotheism. According t...

Towards a Second Innocence
By Dov Maimon  |  10/12/2009
Dov Maimon, and Khaled Abu-Ras, both educators, the former Jewish and the latter Arab, developed a theoretical model out of their shared criticism of concepts such as ethical relativism, and their belief that it is possible to relinquish a particular identity, and use this model to teach religious complexity which they...

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