ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Gur-Ze'ev's Diasporic Philosophy, and critically analyse his Counter-Education Project, which brought him much attention and is an attempt to establish an alternative and non-dogmatic form of education. It describes Gur-Ze'ev's ‘counter-pedagogy’ project to critical pedagogy and the thought of theorists such as Paulo Freire, Peter McLaren, Henri Giroux, and Michael Apple. Gur-Ze'ev argues that the first pillar is the advent of a Diasporic community, or as Gur-Ze'ev also calls it, a “praying congregation”, a term inspired by the writings of Franz Rosenzweig, and his The Star of Redemption. Gur-Ze'ev coined the term ‘counter-education’ in the turn of the 21st century to distinguish it from ‘critical pedagogy’, which he deemed to be paralysed and incapable of dealing with the challenges of our modern times. The intuitive and spontaneous consciousness in the Diasporic ethic leads the eternal improviser to combat any manifestation of injustice, falsehood and ugliness.
