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Jacob Talmon: Combining Histories and Presents

Hardback

Main Details

Title Jacob Talmon: Combining Histories and Presents
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Amikam Nachmani
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:328
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreJudaism
ISBN/Barcode 9780719085727
ClassificationsDewey:320.01
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 31 August 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 -- .

Author Biography

Amikam Nachmani is Chair in the Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan University -- .