Education
London School of Economics.
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London School of Economics.
He coined the terms Totalitarian Democracy and Political Messianism. Talmon was born in Rypin, a town in central Poland, into an orthodox Jewish family. He left in 1934 to study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, then in the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel.
He continued his studies in France but left for London after the Nazi invasion.
In 1943 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Economics. His main works are The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy and Political Messianism: The Romantic Phase.
Talmon died in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 16, 1980, two days after his 64th birthday.
He has been categorised as a "Cold War liberal" because of the anti-Marxism which permeates his main works. He studied the genealogy of totalitarianism, arguing that political Messianism stemmed from the French Revolution, and stressed the similarities between Jacobinism and Stalinism.
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
