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RECENT SCHOLARSHIP HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT SWISS HISTORIAN JACOB BURCKHARDT DID INDEED THINK AND WRITE ABOUT POLITICS. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JACOB BURCKHARDT THE POLITICALLY ASTUTE CULTURAL HISTORIAN AND A BURCKHARDIAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IS EXPLORED IN THIS ARTICLE. LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVES SEEK TO SAFEGUARD INDIVIDUALITY AND FREEDOM WITHOUT FORSAKING TRADITION AND WITHOUT DISREGARDING THE ACCUMULATED WISDOM OF PAST GENERATIONS AND CIVILIZATIONS. THE ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THIS PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION--THE LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE ONE--BEST DESCRIBES JACOB BURCKHARDT'S POLITICAL THINKING.

Western scholars studying Lenin's writings on the Jewish question tend to view them as reflecting no more than the tactical needs of the struggles he conducted against the Jewish Bund. Examines these writings in the context not of Lenin's political quarrels with the Bund but of his theoretical conception of the relationship between modernization and ethnic conflict. (AM)

A compilation of original essays dealing with ethnic challenges to the modern nation-state and to modernity itself, on the philosophical, political and social levels. These issues are examined theoretically and in a number of case studies encompassing three types of states: industrialized, liberal states in Western Europe, settler states in America, Africa and the Middle East, and post-colonial states in Asia and Africa. Contributors come from leading universities in Israel, Europe and North America and from several academic disciplines.