Download or read book An Exploration of the Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian Relationship to the Land of Israel and Friedrich Nietzsche's Influence on the Development of Zionism written by Claire Polansky and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The eternal cycle of violence has permeated Israel throughout history as people from many cultures and faiths have coveted the land. As a result, it has shifted between the Greeks, Romans, Israelites, Ottomans, British, etc. But it is impossible to discuss the modern cauldron of violence without addressing the overarching trigger of the current ongoing crisis, Zionism. Thus, this dissertation questions what it means to have a mystical attachment to a land rooted in faith and culture through Friedrich Nietzsche’s key themes. This mixed qualitative method study explores the psychospiritual crisis of the Jewish diaspora and their collective mythology, which lead to Zionism, and the ecopsychology behind it with parallels to the current Palestinian struggle for autonomy. I conducted semi-structured interviews with Jewish-Israelis and Palestinians, utilizing a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to the thematic analysis. I deconstructed the collective myth through Friedrich Nietzsche’s revaluation of values, which I divided into five stages. I consider the ecosophy of Nietzsche’s Übermensch (German: highest man) with an investigation into messianism, self-actualization and hermeneutic interpretations for the inherited collective consciousness within the Middle East. Finally, future implications of Nietzsche’s work are offered in order to illuminate the practical application of Nietzsche’s groundwork for ecopsychology and transpersonal ecosophy with specific suggestions for a revaluation of Middle Eastern values which “transcend and include” the old and the new ideas of faith and culture within the land—essentially issuing a call for "renewal Zionism" within the Jewish narrative in preparation for a collective new myth. Key words: Nietzsche, Israel, ecosophy, Zionism, ecopsychology, revaluation of values, myth." -- abstract.