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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One:Plato -- Chapter Two: Aristotle -- Chapter Three: Machiavelli -- Chapter Four: Thomas Hobbes -- Chapter Five: John Locke -- Chapter Six: Montesquieu -- Chapter Seven: Rousseau -- Chapter Eight: The Federalist Papers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half-Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Enlightenment: Philosophical Foundations -- Chapter 2: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) -- Chapter 3: The Romantic-Conservative Reaction -- Chapter 4: Auguste Comte (1798-1857) -- Chapter 5: The Philosophical Orientations of Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Chapter 6: Marx's Relation to Hegel and Feuerbach -- Chapter 7: Marx's Historical Sociology -- Chapter 8: Max Weber (1864-1920) -- Chapter 9: Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) -- Chapter 10: Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941) -- Chapter 11: Robert Michels (1876-1936) -- Chapter 12: Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- Chapter 13: Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) -- Chapter 14: George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) -- Epilogue -- Index -- Back Cover.

This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively to the early history of the Jews as they began settling in scattered colonies outside of Israel-Judea during the time of the Babylonian exile; it has come to express the characteristic uniqueness of the Jewish historical experience. Zeitlin retraces the history of the Jewish diaspora from the ancient world to the present, beginning with expulsion from their ancestral homeland and concluding with the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In mapping this process, Zeitlin argues that the Jews' religious self-understanding was crucial in enabling them to cope with the serious and recurring challenges they have had to face throughout their history. He analyses the varied reactions the Jews encountered from their so-called 'host peoples', paying special attention to the attitudes of famous thinkers such as Luther, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wagner, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, the Left Hegelians, Marx and others, who didn't shy away from making explicit their opinions of the Jews.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies, diaspora studies, history and religion, as well as to general readers keen to learn more about the history of the Jewish experience.

In his quest for the historical Muhammad, Zeitlin's chief aim is to catch glimpses of the birth of Islam and the role played by its extraordinary founder. Islam, as its Prophet came to conceive it, was a strict and absolute monotheism. How Muhammad had arrived at this view is not a problem for Muslims, who believe that the Prophet received a revelation from Allah or God, mediated by the Angel Gabriel. For scholars, however, interested in placing Muhammad in the historical context of the seventh-century Arabian Peninsula, the source of the Prophets inspiration is a significant question. It is apparent that the two earlier monotheisms, Judaism and Christianity, constituted an influential presence in the Hijaz, the region comprising Mecca and Medina. Indeed, Jewish communities were salient here, especially in Medina and other not-too-distant oases. Moreover, in addition to the presence of Jews and Christians, there existed a third category of individuals, the Hanifs, who, dissatisfied with their polytheistic beliefs, had developed monotheistic ideas. Zeitlin assesses the extent to which these various influences shaped the emergence of Islam and the development of the Prophets beliefs. He also seeks to understand how the process set in motion by Muhammad led, not long after his death, to the establishment of a world empire. -- from publisher description.