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Jacob Talmon: Combining Histories and Presents

Jacob Talmon: Combining Histories and Presents

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0719085721
ISBN13: 9780719085727
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Aug 31 2012
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Jacob Talmon: Combining histories and presents is not the biography of a historian. Rather, it is a discourse on a mind tormented by fear of the masses as well as the mistakes of the leadership. Talmon often applied his views on contemporary events and trends to his own actions as a humanist and historian. The changing role of the university, the decline of the liberal arts in favour of technology and the social sciences and the displacement of humanism by the market economy were of particular concern. His brilliant and paradoxically prophetic interactions with Arnold Toynbee, David Ben-Gurion, and Menahem Begin have been vindicated by the very history he sought to avoid. This new work in the English language makes Talmonic wisdom available for the first time to a much larger audience

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