Between Enlightenment and Obscurantism
The State of Israel could not have been founded without the legacy of the European Enlightenment. Its founding ideology, i.e., European-born Zionism, acquired its political and social savoir-faire through the pursuit of modernization. Catalysed by the rise of “scientific” anti-Semitism, a societal t...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:qds_7182 https://doi.org/10.4000/14ubo urn:doi:10.4000/14ubo en https://journals.openedition.org/qds/7182 2025-10-02T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/14ubo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Between Enlightenment and Obscurantism Quaderni di Sociologia Rosenberg & Sellier info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2421-5848 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0033-4952 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/qds Helled, Alon The State of Israel could not have been founded without the legacy of the European Enlightenment. Its founding ideology, i.e., European-born Zionism, acquired its political and social savoir-faire through the pursuit of modernization. Catalysed by the rise of “scientific” anti-Semitism, a societal transformation was engendered oscillating between societal rejection (the reaction of ultra-Orthodoxy) and the desire for civil equality through assimilation. This changed the hitherto stratified “habitus” of European Jewry. The independence of the Jewish and democratic state in 1948 was the fruit of these contradictory processes. Nevertheless, the equilibrium between the two fundamental components of Israeli sovereignty is in constant conflict. The particularistic Jewish character conditions democratic universalism, while the state’s legal infrastructure struggles to find convergence and institutional balance. The essay explores the obscure aspects of the Israeli paradox and weighs them against Israel’s progressive autocratization and democratic regression. |
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The State of Israel could not have been founded without the legacy of the European Enlightenment. Its founding ideology, i.e., European-born Zionism, acquired its political and social savoir-faire through the pursuit of modernization. Catalysed by the rise of “scientific” anti-Semitism, a societal transformation was engendered oscillating between societal rejection (the reaction of ultra-Orthodoxy) and the desire for civil equality through assimilation. This changed the hitherto stratified “habitus” of European Jewry. The independence of the Jewish and democratic state in 1948 was the fruit of these contradictory processes. Nevertheless, the equilibrium between the two fundamental components of Israeli sovereignty is in constant conflict. The particularistic Jewish character conditions democratic universalism, while the state’s legal infrastructure struggles to find convergence and institutional balance. The essay explores the obscure aspects of the Israeli paradox and weighs them against Israel’s progressive autocratization and democratic regression. |
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