The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought

by Eric Nelson

Book Overview

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization--the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674062132
• ISBN13: 9780674062139
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"