Jacob Talmon

Amikam Nachmani is Chair in the Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan University

• AcknowledgementsPreface Introduction 1. On the university 2. On Judaism and Jewishness: A sharp critique and outstanding praise 3. On ‘the idea of the university’ 4. On the ‘universal empire of spirit’ to the ‘the republics of knowledge’ 5. On the German intellectual spirit and the modern university 6. On the university and democracy 7. On political involvement: From the Lavon affair to McCarthyism and beyond 8. On the reshaping of the university for the twenty-first century 9. Three historians, one conflict: Jacob Talmon, Arnold Toynbee and Menahem Begin, and the Arab-Israeli dispute Part One: Talmon and Toynbee Part Two: Talmon and Menahem Begin Conclusion: On Talmon and his historiography - the art of pursuing unequivocalness through duality Appendix Bibliography