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Zagorin, Perez was born on May 29, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Solomon Novitz and Mildred (Ginsburg) Zagorin.
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Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a leading historian of early modern Europe. Perez Zagorin takes readers to a time when both the Catholic Church and the main new Protestant denominations embraced a policy of endorsing religious persecution, coercing unity, and, with the state's help, mercilessly crushing dissent and heresy. This position had its roots in certain intellectual and religious traditions, which Zagorin traces before showing how out of the same traditions came the beginnings of pluralism in the West. Here we see how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers--writing from religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives--contributed far more than did political expediency or the growth of religious skepticism to advance the cause of toleration. Reading these thinkers--from Erasmus and Sir Thomas More to John Milton and John Locke, among others--Zagorin brings to light a common, if unexpected, thread: concern for the spiritual welfare of religion itself weighed more in the defense of toleration than did any secular or pragmatic arguments. His book--which ranges from England through the Netherlands, the post-1685 Huguenot Diaspora, and the American Colonies--also exposes a close connection between toleration and religious freedom. A far-reaching and incisive discussion of the major writers, thinkers, and controversies responsible for the emergence of religious tolerance in Western society--from the Enlightenment through the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights--this original and richly nuanced work constitutes an essential chapter in the intellectual history of the modern world.
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(The author presents an account of Milton's political phil...)
The author presents an account of Milton's political philosophy set in the closest relationship to his personal and intellectual history as a political man during the English revolution, the decisive event of his life and time. He follows Milton's mind in its political manifestations from his earlier poetry before the outbreak of revolt against the Stuart monarchy, through his activity as a passionate partisan and revolutionary publicist in the decades 1640-1660, to his final work as an epic poet following the revolution's failure and the restoration of Charles II in 1660. Throughout his life, Milton saw his political beliefs and his idea of the poet as prophet and teacher of nations as being inseparable; the principle of aristocracy linked to virtue also played a prominent part in his moral and political philosophy, which helps to explain many of his enduring attitudes and values. His successive political writings and basic conceptions as a rebel against the existing political and religious order, traced in this study, demonstrate the fundamental continuity in his political values in spite of the disillusion he experienced in his political life, and ensure his place in the English republican tradition.
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( The religious persecution and intellectual intolerance...)
The religious persecution and intellectual intolerance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries compelled many heterodox groups and thinkers to resort to misdirection, hidden meaning, secrecy, and deceit. In this highly unusual interpretation, Perez Zagorin traces the theory and practice of religious leaders, philosophers, intellectuals, and men of letters who used deception to cloak dissident beliefs. Zagorin surveys some of the chief sources of early modern doctrines of dissimulation in the Bible and the works of theologians from Jerome and Augustine to Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin. Subjects covered include Nicodemism, the name given by Calvin to secret Protestants who concealed their faith behind a facade of conformity to Catholic worship; crypto-Judaism in Spain; and the hidden beliefs of English Catholics. Other topics include the Catholic doctrine of mental reservation; the place of dissimulation in English Protestant casuistry; occultism; and dissimulation of religious unbelief among philosophers and men of letters. In charting the widespread phenomenon of lying and deceit and by exploring its evolutions, Perez Zagorin has made an important contribution to the historiography of an intellectually roiling and perilous time. He adds a vital dimension to our understanding of the religious, intellectual, and cultural history of the epoch before the modern. Lacey Baldwin Smith finds this hook “an impressive and scholarly work of cultural synthesis that coins a fresh label for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the age of dissimulation. Zagorin’s efforts to compare and contrast Catholic and Protestant styles of dissimulation and Nicodemism are important, casting a new perspective and focus on the religious and intellectual dissent of the era.”
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Discusses analytically all the important thinkers and publicists who were active at the time of the great revolution. Zagorin gives particular emphasis to the period 1645-60, when Hobbes, the Leveller leaders, and Winstanley were active. The book also restores to attention other writers who, although influential at the time, have seen been neglected and relates the motives of these men to the underlying causes of the age.
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This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains one of the most challenging and controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the interpretation of many of his ideas, particularly his views about natural law and natural right. In this book, Perez Zagorin argues that these two concepts are the twin foundations of the entire structure of Hobbes's moral and political thought. Zagorin clears up numerous misconceptions about Hobbes and his relation to earlier natural law thinkers, in particular Hugo Grotius, and he reasserts the often overlooked role of the Hobbesian law of nature as a moral standard from which even sovereign power is not immune. Because Hobbes is commonly thought to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated and widely assumed to depend entirely on individual self-interest. Zagorin reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law. Hobbes and the Law of Nature is a major contribution to our understanding of Hobbes's moral, legal, and political philosophy, and a book rich in interpretive and critical insights into Hobbes's writing and thought.
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(These essays concentrate on the social history and politi...)
These essays concentrate on the social history and political thought of the English Revolution of 1640-1660, fields in which the author has been a leading contributor to historical discussion. Topics covered include the origin and course of the revolt against the government of Charles I, the social character of the revolution, and important political figures such as Strafford, Pym, and Clarendon. One set of studies focuses on the thought of Thomas Hobbes, whose political philosophy was closely related to the revolutionary experience. Other essays set the English Revolution in the wider context of early modern European revolutions, and look at the English royal court, courtiership, and the practice of dissimulation associated with court politics.
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Zagorin, Perez was born on May 29, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Solomon Novitz and Mildred (Ginsburg) Zagorin.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, 1941; A.M., Harvard University, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1952.
Various positions, Office of War Information, United States Government, U.P. Syndicate, Chief Information Officer, 1942-1946; instructor, Amherst College, 1947-1949; lecturer, Vassar College, 1951-1953; from assistant professor to professor of history, McGill University, 1955-1965; professor, U. Rochester, since 1965; Joseph C. Wilson professor of history, U. Rochester, 1982-1990; Joseph C. Wilson professor of history emeritus, U. Rochester, since 1990; department chairman, U. Rochester, 1968-1969; acting department chairman, U. Rochester, 1988-1989; visiting professor, Johns Hopkins, 1964-1965; Amundsen visiting professor, U. Pittsburgh, 1964; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975-1976. Thompson lecturer history Vassar College, 1987.
(The author presents an account of Milton's political phil...)
( The religious persecution and intellectual intolerance...)
(Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical ...)
(Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical ...)
(Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical ...)
(These essays concentrate on the social history and politi...)
( This is the first major work in English to explore at l...)
(Discusses analytically all the important thinkers and pub...)
( Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its re...)
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Fellow Royal History Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American History Association (chairman Gershoy and Schuyler prize committee 1982-1984).
Married Honoré Desmond Sharrer, May 29, 1947 (deceased April 17, 2009). 1 son, Adam.