Jacob Talmon
Jacob Talmon · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Historian and political theorist who developed the concept of 'totalitarian democracy'
1916, Rzeszów, Poland — 1980, Jerusalem, Israel
Poland · United Kingdom · Israel
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Talmon was a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who developed the influential concept of 'totalitarian democracy', tracing how movements claiming to embody the popular will can produce coercion and terror, as in his book 'The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy'. His analysis of political messianism shaped Cold War political thought. He was a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to Mandatory Palestine.
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Historian and political theorist who developed the concept of 'totalitarian democracy'
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