Talmon 1916 (3 Ergebnisse)

PAPERBACK, moisture stains inside both covers at top and bottom inside margins, causing wrinkling of paper in those areas throughout the book and causing it to be creaky, however the binding remains solid, the paper bright and white and no odor, the book appears essentially unused; if you don't mind the damage and creaking it is a completely usable and readable copy. TALMON, JACOB L. Jacob L. Talmon: mission and testimony : political essays DAMAGED COPY. Foreword by Isaiah Berlin ; edited by David Ohana. Brighton ; Chicago: Sussex Academic Press, 2015, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiii, 400pp., . "The historian Jacob L. Talmon (1916-1980) was chosen by an international committee of scholars as one of the major historians of the twentieth century. It declared that "his historiography was a convincing apologia for human freedom." Talmon owes his fame to his magnum opus, the trilogy that began with The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (1952), continued with Political Messianism (1960) and concluded with The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution (1981). These works have been translated into many languages and have influenced many statesmen and intellectuals. Talmon's Mission and Testimony focuses on the destiny of the Jewish people and the State of Israel in the modern era. Part I, "The Nature of Jewish History", deals with the Jewish presence in history, the universal significance of Jewish history, and the impact of Jewish intellectuals. Part II, "From Anti-Semitism to the Holocaust", concerns the anti-Semitic climate of opinion that led to the Holocaust. Part III, "Israel between War and Peace", discusses the regional and global situation of the State of Israel. In Part IV, "Intellectual and Political Debates", Talmon confronts intellectuals and statesmen such as Arnold Toynbee and Menachem Begin. Part V, "Profiles in History", depicts the intellectual portraits of the historian Lewis Namier and the physicist and champion of human rights Andrei Sakharov. Isaiah Berlin, in his "Tribute to a Friend", wrote about Talmon - CONTENTS: Foreword: Isaiah Berlin - A Tribute to My Friend; Introduction: The Historian as an Intellectual - David Ohana; Jacob L. Teaman's Political Essays; Part One The Nature of Jewish History; Prophetism and Ideology - The Jewish Presence in History; The Nature of Jewish History - Its Universal Significance; The Jewish Intellectuals in Politics - New Factors in an Ancient Tradition; Jews between "Right" and "Left"; Suggestion for Isolating the Jewish Component in World History; Part Two From Anti-Semitism to the Holocaust. Mission and Testimony - The Universal Significance of Modern Anti-SemitismThe New Anti-Semitism; European History - Seedbed of the Holocaust; Part Three Israel between War and Peace; For Total Peace in the Middle East; Israel and the Arab World; Domestic and International Politics - A Presentation; Reflections of an Historian in Jerusalem; Sadat's Peace Initiative and Its Aftermath; Part Four Intellectual and Political Debates; The Argument between Arabs and Jews: An Exchange between Arnold Toynbee and J.L. Talmon; An Open Letter to the Minister of Information; The Mideast War - A Rejoinder. "The Homeland is in Danger" - An Open Letter to Menahem Begin Part Five Profiles in History; The Ordeal of Sir Lewis Namier - The Man, the Historian, the Jew; Andrei Sakharov's Ordeal; Bibliography of J.L. Talmon. ISBN 9781845197414.…

thick heavy PAPERBACK, very good, attractive copy, appears unused but is slighlty creaky for no apparent reason. TALMON, J. L. Myth of the nation and vision of revolution: ideological polarization in the twentieth century. With a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz. New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 2008, 3d printing, xxv, 632pp., . Cover design by Joseph J. Bertucci. Series: Social science classics series First published in 1980. - In what may well rank as the finest political and intellectual history of the twentieth century, the late J. L. Talmon explores the origins of the schism within European society between the totalitarians of Right and Left as well as the split between an acceptance of the historical national community as the natural political and social framework and the vision of a socialist society achieved by a universal revolutionary breakthrough. This, the third and final volume of Talmon's history of the modern world, brings to bear the resources of his incisive scholarship to examine the workings of the ironies of totalitarianism as well as the resources of democracy. - CONTENTS: Introduction to the Transaction edition - Preface - Introduction -- PART I. Marx, Engels and the Nation -- 1. The Chiliastic Period of Marx and Engels -- 2. Europe is Pregnant with Revolution -- 3. The Revolution One and Indivisible -- 4. Polen Scharmerei -- 5. Right and Force in Global Revolutionary Strategy -- 6. The Incomplete Theory -- 7. Conclusions -- PART II. The Emancipation of the Proletariat and the National Destiny-Wilhelmine Germany -- 1. Two Casts of Mind-Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein -- 2. Revolutionary Orthodoxy and Reformist Heresy -- 3. The Portia of an Internationalist Revolutionary as a Young Woman -- 4. The Response to a Prophet -- 5. A Polarized Nation-The Second Reich -- 6. The Lesson of 1905 in Russia -- 7. The World Revolution One and Indivisible-In the Age of Imperialism -- 8. Nationalist Separatism or Revolutionary Class Internationalism in Polish Socialism -- PART III. "The Witches' Kitchen" and Its Brew: The Nationalities Problem-Austria -- 1. Austria as the Historic Test Case -- 2. Class or Nation? --3. The Burden of Irrational History versus Modernization -- 4. "A Struggle for Life and Death" -- 5. Democracy Eroded by Nationalism -- 6. The Failure of Socialist Internationalism -- 7. A Socialist Theory of Nationality -- PART IV: The Jewish Dimension -- 1. The Alien Fermenting Ingredient and the Mountainous Shadow -- 2. The Pioneer and the Usurper -- 3. Test Case and Touchstone -- 4. The Encounter between Jew and Gentile in Modern Society -- 5. "The Social Question is the Jewish Question" -- 6. The Road to Auschwitz-Racism -- 7. The Encounter with Revolution -- PART V. Russia-Holy, Profaned and Predestines -- 1. Russia-Holy Profaned and Predestined -- 2. The Birth of a Revolutionary Ideology -- Belinsky and Herzen -- 3. Loosening the Spiritual Arcana Imperii -- 4. The Antinomies -- 5. A Russian Version of Totalitarian Democracy -- 6. When "Consistency Reaches the Point of Monstrosity" -- PART 6. Lenin-International Revolutionary and Architect of New Russia -- 1. The Formative Years -- 2. War and Revolution -- PART 7. The General Will of the Global Proletariat-Universal Totalitarian Democracy -- Part 8. From Georges Sorel to Benito Mussolini-- 1. The Legacy of Georges Sorrel -- Marxism, Violence, Fascism-- 2. Mussolini and the Fascists Denouement -- Part 9. The German Revolution of 1918 and Hitler in the Wings -- 1. The Dilemmas of the German Revolution of 1918 -- 2. Hitler in the Wings. ISBN 9780887388446. …

Hardcover. Octavo, XI, 366 pages. In Fair plus condition with a dust jacket. Spine is grey with white print. Dust jacket has edgewear with short tears at spine ends and flap corners, toning to spine, foxing. Price unclipped: "$4.75". Boards in red cloth; wear to spine caps and corners, lightly cocked spine. Text block has spotting to edges and endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1406926. FP New Rockville Stock.…