Moshe Berent
Moshe Berent is a former Lecturer 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.
- Moshe Berent, The Jewish Cause: An Introduction to a Different Israeli History, Carmel Publishing, 2019.
Articles
- Moshe Berent,, on the Open University website, 2012. Social Evolution and History, Volume 5, Number 1. March 2006, pp. 141–163Greece: a polis without a state, in The Early State: Its Alternatives and Analogues, edited by Leonid E. Grinin et al. 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. European Heritage 9.4 533-535Consensus Politics and the Modern State, in Keith Sutherland, Rape the Constitution? Anthropology and the Classics: War, Violence, and the Stateless Polis, Classical Quarterly 50.1, 257–289.Stasis, or the Greek Invention of Politics History of Political Thought, XIX, 3, pp. 331–362.Stateless polis, towards a new anthropological model of the ancient Greek community.