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is there a historical Jewish strain of vitalism?
http://wfhb.org/news/interchange-the-radical-democracy-of-henry-david-thoreau-a-conversation-with-branka-arsic/
Depends upon what you mean by historical? It’s all over Buber and Rosenzweig, who are both, by now, already antiquarian
ah yeah sorry was thinking of the Biblical references so much farther back.
Readers might like —
https://edmooneyblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/a-book-on-thoreau/comment-page-1/#comment-1416