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Introduction : republicanizing democracy, democratizing the republicIn Yiftah Elazar & Geneviève Rousselière (eds.), Republicanism and the Future of Democracy, Cambridge University Press. 2019.
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20Adam Smith and the idea of free governmentIntellectual History Review 32 (4): 691-707. 2022.This article reconstructs Adam Smith’s contribution to the conversation on the nature and value of free government in the eighteenth century. Smith contributes to this conversation in two ways. First, by embedding the idea of free government in a narrative of the progress of government, which traces the interplay between natural progress and social circumstances, and culminates in the establishment of modern free government in Britain. Second, by offering a theory of the form of free government …Read more
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19Republicanism and the Future of Democracy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.
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28Liberty as a Caricature: Bentham’s Antidote to RepublicanismJournal of the History of Ideas 76 (3): 417-439. 2015.This article reconsiders Bentham’s theory of liberty in relation to republican and democratic ideas in the Age of Revolution. It reinterprets his jurisprudential definitions of liberty as ideological weapons intended to “cut the throat” of pro-American and proto-democratic discourse. In particular, his negative definition of individual liberty and his democratic and international definitions of political liberty were designed and used to caricature and draw to absurdity the republican ideal of s…Read more
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Hebrew University of JerusalemSenior Lecturer
Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |