Finding Meaning

From its trendy urban centers to its ancient deserts Israel's history is based on the rich heritage of traditions and contradictions. It is known as a start-up nation with hospitable and warm interpersonal relationships and a steady high-ranked happiness level. Yet its deep political<br>disparities and past traumas ripple beneath the surface of its culture with unyielding existential threats looming from its neighbors and from within its borders. The turbulent Israeli setting--characterized by salient existential threats issues of identity and dialectic world views--serve as a<br>magnifying glass for unravelling a variety of significant ways through which the human fundamental motivation to find meaning in life is manifested. <p/><em>Finding Meaning</em> incorporates a conceptual framework for examining the post-modern sociocultural Israeli scene that facilitates and triggers the search for meaning among its citizens. Combining theory data and illustrative case studies this book unravels a variety of significant and fundamental<br>manifestations of a quest for meaning under existentialist duress carefully navigating the cultural context of post-modernist Israel. Written by experts in these areas this book offers new insights into this quest by suggesting a new construct that weaves together the personal and cultural<br>environment highlights several key processes and dimensions that appear to characterize this search and offers broad perspectives that contribute to the research at these intersections. <p/><em>Finding Meaning</em> is a pioneering book with an insightful innovative and hopeful lens for academic scholarly and some lay readers interested in meaning and contemporary Israeli society.<br>