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Moshe Berent

Moshe Berent (Hebrew: משה ברנט; born February 2, 1954) is a former Lecturer (retired) in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel.

Berent received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Technion in Haifa, Master's Degree in Philosophy under Prof. Joseph Agassi at Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Political History from the University of Cambridge. Berent's mentors include the sociologist and researcher of nationalism Ernest Gellner.

Berent's research interests include Ancient Greece and Israeli national identity.

Books

  • Moshe Berent, Joseph Agassi, Judith Buber Agassi, Israeli National Consciousness, Pinchas Sapir Development Center, 1988.
  • Moshe Berent, Joseph Agassi, Judith Buber Agassi, Who is an Israelite, Kivunim, 1991.
  • Moshe Berent, A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic, Israel Academic Press 2015 (translated from the ).
  • Moshe Berent, The Jewish Cause: An Introduction to a Different Israeli History, Carmel Publishing, 2019.

Articles

  • Moshe Berent, Conscription of Arabs in the Army as a National Interest, on the Open University website, 2012.
  • Stateless Polis: A Response to Criticism Social Evolution and History, Volume 5, Number 1. March 2006, pp. 141–163
  • Greece: a polis without a state, in The Early State: Its Alternatives and Analogues, edited by Leonid E. Grinin et al. (Volgograd, Russia, 2004) p. 364-387.
  • Philosopher of the "State of God" or a communitarian? Review of "Philosophical Theory of the State" and related essays. Bernard Bosanquet, edited by Gerald F. Gaus and William Sweet (Chicago, 2001). European Heritage 9.4 (2004) 533-535
  • Consensus Politics and the Modern State (with Keith Sutherland), in Keith Sutherland (Editor), Rape the Constitution? (Torverton, 2000)
  • Anthropology and the Classics: War, Violence, and the Stateless Polis, Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000), 257–289.
  • Stasis, or the Greek Invention of Politics History of Political Thought, XIX, 3 (1998), pp. 331–362.
  • Stateless polis, towards a new anthropological model of the ancient Greek community.

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