Hillel Fradkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1374540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hillel Fradkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hillel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fradkin |
| SIGNATURE | FRADKIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Médecins du Monde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Debate: Arab Democracy or Islamist Revolution
The argument of Roy’s “The Transformation of the Arab World” in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of Democracy is threefold. First, the circumstances in which the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups such as the Salafists have reached power have also put them “into a political space formatted by certain constraints.” Second, the Islamists are aware of this situation and they have bent or will bend to it. Third and finally, if they do not “accep…
Islamist Parties and Democracy: Going Back to the Origins
Until recently, the very idea of an Islamist political party would have appeared a contradiction in terms. Hassan al-Banna, founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and one of the forebears of Islamism, was cautious to refer to his group as movement rather not a party; for him, political parties and even nation-states were Western inventions that could have no place in the global Islamic polity (the umma ). But how much does the modern Islamist part…
L'histoire et l'avenir non écrit du salafisme
Il s'agit du texte des remarques introductives de Hillel Fradkin a la conference sur les Freres Musulmans qui s'est tenue en 2007 au Hudson Institute a Washington. Cette intervention a ete publiee dans le volume 6 de Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, numero special consacre a l'examen du mouvement des Freres Musulmans aux Etats-Unis, en Europe et au Proche-Orient. Nous remercions l'auteur et le Hudson Institute de nous avoir autorises a tradui…
World Religions and Democracy: Judaism and Political Life
The question of the relationship between Jews and Judaism, on the one hand, and democracy on the other, is of extraordinary complexity. It requires examining both the Jewish religion, and above all its holy book, the Hebrew Bible, plus three thousand years of Jewish historical and political experience. Today, Jews everywhere are among democracyâ s strongest supporters and the Jewish state, modern Israel, is the only securely democratic regime in …
Properly understanding other peoples
Does Democracy Need Religion
Does Democracy Need Religion? Hillel Fradkin (bio) “On my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention,” Tocqueville reports in Democracy in America (I, 308). Tocqueville’s wonder embraces admiration as well as surprise. Though religion is not formally a part of the American political system, Tocqueville goes so far as to describe it as the first of America’s political institutions …
Philosophy and Law: Leo Strauss as a Student of Medieval Jewish Thought
Even a casual glance at the list of Leo Strauss's writings devoted in whole or in part to medieval Jewish texts is sufficient to make clear that in any ordinary sense he left a substantial legacy to this field of study. They include two books, Philosophy and Law and Persecution and the Art of Writing , the monograph length essay which serves as the introduction to the English translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed done by Shlomo Pines …
Les racines du fondamentalisme musulman
Les mouvements de renouveau islamique ne sont pas nouveaux dans l'histoire du monde musulman. Le fondamentalisme actuel comporte cependant un certain nombre d'elements non traditionnels, dont il est difficile d'augurer les consequences, et un caractere particulierement agressif qui n'est pas a sous-estimer. Vu la conception islamique des relations entre la religion et la politique, les fondamentalistes eprouvent une tres vive antipathie pour le m…
The “Separation” of Religion and Polities: The Paradoxes of Spinoza
Benedict Spinoza is the first philosophical proponent of liberal democracy. In his Theologico-Political Tractate he calls for the liberation of philosophy from theology and for the subordination of religion to politics. Though Spinoza may have not influenced the American Founding Fathers directly, both the clarity and the paradoxes of his arguments are perhaps the best guide to understanding better the present-day conflicts over religion and poli…
Does Democracy Need Religion
Does Democracy Need Religion? Hillel Fradkin (bio) “On my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention,” Tocqueville reports in Democracy in America (I, 308). Tocqueville’s wonder embraces admiration as well as surprise. Though religion is not formally a part of the American political system, Tocqueville goes so far as to describe it as the first of America’s political institutions …
Islamist Parties and Democracy: Going Back to the Origins
Until recently, the very idea of an Islamist political party would have appeared a contradiction in terms. Hassan al-Banna, founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and one of the forebears of Islamism, was cautious to refer to his group as movement rather not a party; for him, political parties and even nation-states were Western inventions that could have no place in the global Islamic polity (the umma ). But how much does the modern Islamist part…
Debate: Arab Democracy or Islamist Revolution
The argument of Roy’s “The Transformation of the Arab World” in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of Democracy is threefold. First, the circumstances in which the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups such as the Salafists have reached power have also put them “into a political space formatted by certain constraints.” Second, the Islamists are aware of this situation and they have bent or will bend to it. Third and finally, if they do not “accep…
The “Separation” of Religion and Polities: The Paradoxes of Spinoza
Benedict Spinoza is the first philosophical proponent of liberal democracy. In his Theologico-Political Tractate he calls for the liberation of philosophy from theology and for the subordination of religion to politics. Though Spinoza may have not influenced the American Founding Fathers directly, both the clarity and the paradoxes of his arguments are perhaps the best guide to understanding better the present-day conflicts over religion and poli…
The “Separation” of Religion and Polities: The Paradoxes of Spinoza
Benedict Spinoza is the first philosophical proponent of liberal democracy. In his Theologico-Political Tractate he calls for the liberation of philosophy from theology and for the subordination of religion to politics. Though Spinoza may have not influenced the American Founding Fathers directly, both the clarity and the paradoxes of his arguments are perhaps the best guide to understanding better the present-day conflicts over religion and poli…
Les racines du fondamentalisme musulman
Les mouvements de renouveau islamique ne sont pas nouveaux dans l'histoire du monde musulman. Le fondamentalisme actuel comporte cependant un certain nombre d'elements non traditionnels, dont il est difficile d'augurer les consequences, et un caractere particulierement agressif qui n'est pas a sous-estimer. Vu la conception islamique des relations entre la religion et la politique, les fondamentalistes eprouvent une tres vive antipathie pour le m…
Philosophy and Law: Leo Strauss as a Student of Medieval Jewish Thought
Even a casual glance at the list of Leo Strauss's writings devoted in whole or in part to medieval Jewish texts is sufficient to make clear that in any ordinary sense he left a substantial legacy to this field of study. They include two books, Philosophy and Law and Persecution and the Art of Writing , the monograph length essay which serves as the introduction to the English translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed done by Shlomo Pines …
Does Democracy Need Religion
Does Democracy Need Religion? Hillel Fradkin (bio) “On my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention,” Tocqueville reports in Democracy in America (I, 308). Tocqueville’s wonder embraces admiration as well as surprise. Though religion is not formally a part of the American political system, Tocqueville goes so far as to describe it as the first of America’s political institutions …
Properly understanding other peoples
World Religions and Democracy: Judaism and Political Life
The question of the relationship between Jews and Judaism, on the one hand, and democracy on the other, is of extraordinary complexity. It requires examining both the Jewish religion, and above all its holy book, the Hebrew Bible, plus three thousand years of Jewish historical and political experience. Today, Jews everywhere are among democracyâ s strongest supporters and the Jewish state, modern Israel, is the only securely democratic regime in …
Islamist Parties and Democracy: Going Back to the Origins
Until recently, the very idea of an Islamist political party would have appeared a contradiction in terms. Hassan al-Banna, founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and one of the forebears of Islamism, was cautious to refer to his group as movement rather not a party; for him, political parties and even nation-states were Western inventions that could have no place in the global Islamic polity (the umma ). But how much does the modern Islamist part…
L'histoire et l'avenir non écrit du salafisme
Il s'agit du texte des remarques introductives de Hillel Fradkin a la conference sur les Freres Musulmans qui s'est tenue en 2007 au Hudson Institute a Washington. Cette intervention a ete publiee dans le volume 6 de Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, numero special consacre a l'examen du mouvement des Freres Musulmans aux Etats-Unis, en Europe et au Proche-Orient. Nous remercions l'auteur et le Hudson Institute de nous avoir autorises a tradui…
Debate: Arab Democracy or Islamist Revolution
The argument of Roy’s “The Transformation of the Arab World” in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of Democracy is threefold. First, the circumstances in which the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups such as the Salafists have reached power have also put them “into a political space formatted by certain constraints.” Second, the Islamists are aware of this situation and they have bent or will bend to it. Third and finally, if they do not “accep…
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