The Liberal-Republican Quandary in Israel, Europe and the United States : : Early Modern Thought Meets Current Affairs / / ed. by Thomas Maissen, Fania Oz-Salzberger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Fleischacker, Sam,; Geuna, Marco,; Maissen, Thomas,; Oz-Salzberger, Fania,; Pinto, Diana,; Pocock, John G. A.,; Reichman, Amnon,; Schochet, Gordon,; Shalev, Eran,; Weeber, Urte,; Zabel, Christine,; Zreik, Raef,
• HerausgeberIn: Maissen, Thomas,; Oz-Salzberger, Fania,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars, including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen, and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume offers a threefold intellectual juncture. Its contributors analyze the liberal- epublican tension-fi eld in a novel way, juxtaposing early modern political thought with twenty first century political concerns. The volume conjoins Israeli political scholarship with its European and American counterparts, mapping differentials and commonalities. Topics include Israeli-Palestinian relations, law and justice, commerce and citizenship, and post-holocaust historical memory—all within the pioneering context of early modern political concepts and their contemporary significance. Of interest to researchers and advanced students of intellectual history, political philosophy, political science, international relations, European Studies, and Jewish and Israel studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introductory Remarks -- Republics, Revelations and Liberalisms: A Selective History of Early Modern Political Thought -- Political Hebraism, Past and Present -- The Polis in Seventeenth-Century Political Discourse: Athens Mirrored by Francis Rous, Marchamont Nedham, George Guillet de Saint-George and Jonathan Swift -- Were the Republics Able to Handle the Challenge? Commerce as a Driving Force Behind Changing Role Models in Eighteenth-Century Political Discourse -- Beyond the Republican Synthesis: Biblical Republicanism and the American Revolution -- Toleration, Liberty, and Rights: or, What Hobbes Knew, Others Feared, and Hohfeld Figured Out -- Old and New Justifications for War: Just Wars and Humanitarian Interventions -- Justice Over Charity: Some Dangers in Faith-Based Poverty Initiatives -- Has the Wheel Come Full Circle? Civic Service Debates in Israel -- Universal Jurisdiction, Really Serious Crimes, and the Liberal-Republican Debate -- Republican and Liberal Values in Coping With the Memory of World War II: The Swiss Holocaust Assets in a Transnational Perspective -- Europe and Israel Today: Can Their Incompatible “Never Again(s)” Be Reconciled? -- Index