The Liberal-Republican Quandary in Israel, Europe and the United States : : Early Modern Thought Meets Current Affairs /

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

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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 poli...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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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

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