The liberal-republican quandary in Israel, Europe and the United States: early modern thought meets current affairs
Intro -- 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, Geo...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA
Academic Studies Press
2012
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| Series: | Israel: Society, Culture, and History Ser.
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| Online Access: | Aggregator, lizenzpflichtig: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3110496
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Thomas Maissen ... |
| Summary: | Intro -- 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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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781618110299 |