Political Thought and Political History

MOSHA GAMMER, Joseph Kostiner, Moshe Shemesh

• Introduction - Elie Kedourie as teacher. Part 1 Philosophy, political thought and ideology: Schiller's theory of aesthetic semblance, Patrick Murray; notes on the concept of the civil condition, David H. Sandiford; the role of education in the development of Arab nationalism in the fertile crescent during the 1920s, Yoram Kahati; Islam vis-a-vis communism and socialism, Rami Ginat; Sun Yat-Sen's influence on Mu'ammar Qadhdhafi, Audrey Wells. Part 2 History and politics: Vorontsov's campaign of 1845 - a reconstruction and reinterpretation, Moshe Gammer; dating the past - C.J. Edmonds and the invention of modern Iraq, Liora Lukitz; Nahhas, the Arab league and the postwar order - a reinterpretation, Eran Lerman; the causes of the failure of democracy in Iran, 1941-1953, Massoumeh Torfeh; Arab strategy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, January 1964 to June 1967, Moshe Shemesh; Elie Kedourie's teaching of Middle Eastern history.