Meirav Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meirav Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meirav |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7450-3530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Questions of Modern Natural Law
In the late eighteenth century, Johann David Michaelis criticized Moses Mendelssohn for bringing what Michaelis termed his native Jewish tradition into his thinking on universal matters. Yet leaning on Jewish sources had been a key feature of European natural law thinking from the onset of modernity. In this article, the author reads Mendelssohn’s natural law theory as conversant with early modern legal thought that was scrutinized in the enlight…
Sovereignty in Hebrew and the Decline of Democracy
Since assuming office in December 2022, Israel's government has worked to weaken the state's democratic infrastructure. While this appears to break from a long-standing Israeli consensus on democracy, this article demonstrates that retiring democracy has long been the agenda of the faction of the Israeli right most empowered in Israel's current government, namely the settler movement. Following the discourse in Sovereignty: A Political Journal , …
From I Samuel 8 to Genesis 1
One way of understanding Political Theology is as the reading of modern political concepts as secularized theological concepts, influentially promoted by Carl Schmitt. Chief among theological concepts secularized into modern politics, for Schmitt, is God, whose rule translates, through the writings of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes into modern sovereignty. For Hobbes, the sovereign is a "mortal God," and God's rule over Israel is the only ancient p…
Behind and Beyond the Return of Religion
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Modern sovereignty and the non-Christian, or Westphalia’s Jewish State
This article participates in efforts by IR theorists to clarify aspects of modern sovereignty – an idea currently in rupture and being rethought – by returning to its founding ‘Westphalian moment’. While recent work has reconnected modern sovereignty to religion, considering Westphalia as a religious settlement and Christian concerns persisting in the groundwork of IR, our work looks beyond Christian concerns and asks how Westphalian sovereignty …
My Highest Priority Was to Absolve the Divine Laws”
In his autobiography, Thomas Hobbes stated that he wrote his most influential work of political theory, Leviathan, to “absolve the divine laws” in response to “atrocious crimes being attributed to the commands of God.” This article attempts to take Hobbes seriously, and to read Leviathan as a contribution to the religious politics of the English Civil War. I demonstrate Hobbes’ appropriation of the religious terms and sources characterizing civil…
Imagined democracies
Philo Judaeus and Hugo Grotius's Modern Natural Law
Hugo Grotius is commonly accepted as the first modern natural law theorist, yet Grotius's definition of natural law was not new and what, if anything, was "modern" about his natural law remains a subject of debate. This paper suggests that a key to the novelty of Grotius's natural law may be in the prominent role Philo Judaeus, cited 114 times in The Laws of War and Peace, played in Grotius's natural law theory. Philo's natural law is explored, a…
My Highest Priority Was to Absolve the Divine Laws”
In his autobiography, Thomas Hobbes stated that he wrote his most influential work of political theory, Leviathan, to “absolve the divine laws” in response to “atrocious crimes being attributed to the commands of God.” This article attempts to take Hobbes seriously, and to read Leviathan as a contribution to the religious politics of the English Civil War. I demonstrate Hobbes’ appropriation of the religious terms and sources characterizing civil…
Imagined democracies
Sovereignty in Hebrew and the Decline of Democracy
Since assuming office in December 2022, Israel's government has worked to weaken the state's democratic infrastructure. While this appears to break from a long-standing Israeli consensus on democracy, this article demonstrates that retiring democracy has long been the agenda of the faction of the Israeli right most empowered in Israel's current government, namely the settler movement. Following the discourse in Sovereignty: A Political Journal , …
Modern sovereignty and the non-Christian, or Westphalia’s Jewish State
This article participates in efforts by IR theorists to clarify aspects of modern sovereignty – an idea currently in rupture and being rethought – by returning to its founding ‘Westphalian moment’. While recent work has reconnected modern sovereignty to religion, considering Westphalia as a religious settlement and Christian concerns persisting in the groundwork of IR, our work looks beyond Christian concerns and asks how Westphalian sovereignty …
Philo Judaeus and Hugo Grotius's Modern Natural Law
Hugo Grotius is commonly accepted as the first modern natural law theorist, yet Grotius's definition of natural law was not new and what, if anything, was "modern" about his natural law remains a subject of debate. This paper suggests that a key to the novelty of Grotius's natural law may be in the prominent role Philo Judaeus, cited 114 times in The Laws of War and Peace, played in Grotius's natural law theory. Philo's natural law is explored, a…
Philo Judaeus and Hugo Grotius's Modern Natural Law
Hugo Grotius is commonly accepted as the first modern natural law theorist, yet Grotius's definition of natural law was not new and what, if anything, was "modern" about his natural law remains a subject of debate. This paper suggests that a key to the novelty of Grotius's natural law may be in the prominent role Philo Judaeus, cited 114 times in The Laws of War and Peace, played in Grotius's natural law theory. Philo's natural law is explored, a…
Imagined democracies
My Highest Priority Was to Absolve the Divine Laws”
In his autobiography, Thomas Hobbes stated that he wrote his most influential work of political theory, Leviathan, to “absolve the divine laws” in response to “atrocious crimes being attributed to the commands of God.” This article attempts to take Hobbes seriously, and to read Leviathan as a contribution to the religious politics of the English Civil War. I demonstrate Hobbes’ appropriation of the religious terms and sources characterizing civil…
Behind and Beyond the Return of Religion
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Modern sovereignty and the non-Christian, or Westphalia’s Jewish State
This article participates in efforts by IR theorists to clarify aspects of modern sovereignty – an idea currently in rupture and being rethought – by returning to its founding ‘Westphalian moment’. While recent work has reconnected modern sovereignty to religion, considering Westphalia as a religious settlement and Christian concerns persisting in the groundwork of IR, our work looks beyond Christian concerns and asks how Westphalian sovereignty …
Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Questions of Modern Natural Law
In the late eighteenth century, Johann David Michaelis criticized Moses Mendelssohn for bringing what Michaelis termed his native Jewish tradition into his thinking on universal matters. Yet leaning on Jewish sources had been a key feature of European natural law thinking from the onset of modernity. In this article, the author reads Mendelssohn’s natural law theory as conversant with early modern legal thought that was scrutinized in the enlight…
Sovereignty in Hebrew and the Decline of Democracy
Since assuming office in December 2022, Israel's government has worked to weaken the state's democratic infrastructure. While this appears to break from a long-standing Israeli consensus on democracy, this article demonstrates that retiring democracy has long been the agenda of the faction of the Israeli right most empowered in Israel's current government, namely the settler movement. Following the discourse in Sovereignty: A Political Journal , …
From I Samuel 8 to Genesis 1
One way of understanding Political Theology is as the reading of modern political concepts as secularized theological concepts, influentially promoted by Carl Schmitt. Chief among theological concepts secularized into modern politics, for Schmitt, is God, whose rule translates, through the writings of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes into modern sovereignty. For Hobbes, the sovereign is a "mortal God," and God's rule over Israel is the only ancient p…
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