The Turn to Tradition in the Study of Jewish Politics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6232736
AutoresJulie E Cooper (0000-0003-2353-370X, Tel Aviv University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas67-87
Fecha de publicación2016-05-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577
EditorialAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-polisci-042314-125449
OpenAlexW2352003609
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas42

This article traces the political, intellectual, and disciplinary motivations behind the establishment of the field of Jewish political thought, and pursues implications of the field's establishment for the dynamics of Jewish political debate. Jewish political thought is decisively marked by the experience of statelessness. Thus, to establish the possibility of a Jewish political tradition, scholars have had to abandon or relax the received view that sovereignty is the defining horizon for politics. Although the pervasiveness of politics is the field's animating conviction, scholars have yet to mount a sufficiently forceful challenge to sovereignty's conceptual and political priority. This review surveys the reasons why scholars have been reluctant to pursue alternative, diasporic conceptions of the political, focusing on their notions of what constitutes a tradition. The article contends that developing a more ambitious conception of the Jewish political tradition is a prerequisite for encouraging political debate about sovereignty's importance for Jewish political agency

Agency (philosophy · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Religion and Society Interactions