James Harrington on the Hebrew Commonwealth

Bibliographic Data

ID6399455
AuthorsRonald Beiner (0000-0002-7955-7658, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume76
Issue2
Pages169-193
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670514000047
OpenAlexW2010110957
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

Living in the post-9/11 world that we do, it is evident that the contemporary world continues to be very much vulnerable to political disruptions emanating from theocratic politics; and in that sense, any secularist hopes that may have been entertained for a political domestication of religion are far from having been fulfilled. That in turn suggests to us that the concerns that animated the great seventeenth-century struggle against clerical power and theocratic authority are enduring ones, and that we have reason to continue to engage intellectually with critics of priestcraft like Hobbes, Harrington, and Spinoza. Within that broader context, this article concerns itself with Harrington in particular, focusing on his efforts in his polemical writings of the late 1650s to draw resources for Erastian politics from a Hobbes-inspired account of the Hebrew republic

Commonwealth · Constitutionalism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Hebrew · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Theocracy · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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