A01=Daniel Elazar
Author_Daniel Elazar
Better Life
British North America
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Civil Society
Common Language
comparative federalism
Covenant Ideas
Covenantal Political Culture
Covenantal Polities
Covenantal Societies
Covenantal Thinking
Covenantal Tradition
Denis De Rougement
Direct Democracy
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Federal Liberty
federal theory
J. Elazar Daniel
Jewish Political Tradition
Modern Constitutionalism
Modern Epoch
Modern Nationalism
Noahide Covenant
Political Compact
political theology
Postmodern Epoch
postwar democratic governance models
Protestant Reformation politics
social contract tradition
state-building processes
Vice Versa
Violating
War Ii
West Germany
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138508644
- Weight: 571g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment. In the political realm, the idea of covenant has been particularly influential in frontierlands. Reinformed by the idea of the federated commonwealth that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation, covenant eventually fostered the establishment of the United States of America and our modern idea of federalism. More recently, these great products of the covenant tradition helped to bring about the collapse of twentieth-century totalitarianism and fueled a new spirit in contemporary political life throughout the world. A return to political covenantalism seems to be an appropriate response to the crisis of modern civilization and the new epoch after World War II. Covenant and Civil Society is the final volume in Elazar's monumental series The Covenant Tradition in Politics. In it, he traces the tradition's rebirth and development in the modern epoch.Covenant and Civil Society also considers issues of communal solidarity on a postmodern basis. Elazar traces the transition from the covenanted commonwealth of the Protestant Reformation to the civil society of the modern epoch, and explores the covenant's role in the modern statist era and the development of modern democracy. Scandiriavia, and the Latin-Germanic borderlands, many of which are typically thought of as examples of organic or hierarchical models. Elazar argues that a covenantal model is more appropriate and is part of the Western tradition as such.The book concludes with examination of the present and future of covenantal thought. Today, the global spread of federalism, most clearly seen in the formation of the European Union, is also seen in local and private arenas. Elazar considers the benefits of covenantal thought while balancing such optimism with a realistic sense of its limits. As a prescription for change, Covenant and Civil Society is a fundamental and original contribution. Along with the previous volumes in this series, all available from Transaction, it will be of deep interest to historians, social scientists, political theorists, and theologians of all persuasions.
