{"title":"Alan Bekhor","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Bekhor’s works delve into the complex intersections of politics, history, and cultural identity. His writing offers insightful perspectives on contemporary issues, often exploring the nuanced threads that shape societies and their political landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect sharp analysis and thought-provoking narratives that shed light on the broader implications of political events and ideologies. Bekhor’s books invite reflection on the recurring themes within current affairs and their historical roots.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-hebraic-thread-by-alan-bekhor-9798888459546","title":"The Hebraic Thread","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe West’s current crisis of order traces back to one fateful loss: the biblical tradition of liberty under the law that once sustained it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the West tearing itself apart? From campus protests and climate apocalypticism to the delegitimisation of Israel and the hollowing out of democratic institutions, the patterns of moral and political disintegration have become unmistakable. In \u003cem\u003eThe Hebraic Thread\u003c\/em\u003e, Alan Bekhor traces this crisis to its deepest roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBekhor argues that the Anglophone world’s distinctive achievement—a morally accountable pluralism grounded in law, covenant, and divine accountability—arose from a tradition he calls Christian Hebraism, forged by thinkers like Hobbes and Locke from the political theology of the Hebrew Bible. This tradition sustained Great Britain and America as centres of a free world order for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Spinoza’s radical break from biblical theology, an alternative trajectory took hold on the European continent—one that displaced revelation with reason, covenant with ideology, and law with the unchecked sovereignty of the human will. Through the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Bekhor traces the philosophical genealogy of today’s antinomian movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the book’s final section, Bekhor finds unexpected allies in postmodern thinkers such as Freud, Wittgenstein, Levinas, and Derrida, whose work revives the philosophical space for Hebraic themes of language, interpretation, and moral responsibility. The result is a bold call to recover the religious and intellectual foundations without which liberty, law, and Western civilisation cannot endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68068933763308,"sku":"9798888459546","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798888459546-the-hebraic-thread-1.jpg?v=1793821065"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alan-bekhor.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}