The liberal-republican quandary in Israel, Europe, and the United States : early modern thought meets current affairs / edited by Thomas Maissen and Fania Oz-Salzberger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 OutOld 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

In English.

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