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Yaron Ezrahi Yaron Ezrahi ( ; 19 April 1940 – 29 January 2019) was an Israeli political theorist and philosopher , professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , a senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, and a public intellectual. Ezrahi was known for his work on the relations between modern science and the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the political uses of scientific knowledge and authority. His late work focuses on the deterioration of the Enlightenment version of the partnership between science, technology and democracy, the changing parameters of postmodern imaginaries, and performances of the democratic order. His books, written in English and Hebrew, were translated into German and Chinese.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Yaron Ezrahi Yaron Ezrahi (born 1940 in Tel Aviv , Israel ), is an Israeli political scientist . He is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Ezrahi is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem , Israel. . Ezrahi obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973.
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Yaron Ezrahi Yaron Ezrahi , born in 1940 in Tel-Aviv , is an Israeli political theorist and an Emeritus professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem .He is also a senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem .Ezrahi is known for his work on the relations between modern science and the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the political uses of scientific knowledge and authority.His latest work focuses on the deterioration of the Enlightenment version of the partnership between science, technology and democracy and the changing parameters of postmodern imaginaries and performances of the democratic order.His books have been translated into German and Chinese.
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Yaron Ezrahi Yaron Ezrahi ( ; 19 April 1940 – 29 January 2019) was an Israeli political theorist and philosopher , professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , a senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, and a public intellectual. Ezrahi was known for his work on the relations between modern science and the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the political uses of scientific knowledge and authority. His late work focuses on the deterioration of the Enlightenment version of the partnership between science, technology and democracy, the changing parameters of postmodern imaginaries, and performances of the democratic order. His books, written in English and Hebrew, were translated into German and Chinese.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Israeli political theorist and philosopher (1940-2019) Yaron Ezrahi ( Hebrew : ירון אזרחי ; 19 April 1940 – 29 January 2019) was an Israeli political theorist and philosopher , professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , a senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, and a public intellectual. Ezrahi was known for his work on the relations between modern science and the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the political uses of scientific knowledge and authority. His late work focuses on the deterioration of the Enlightenment version of the partnership between science, technology and democracy, the changing parameters of postmodern imaginaries, and performances of the democratic order. His books, written in English and Hebrew, were translated into German and Chinese.
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israeli political scientist
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israeli political theorist and philosopher
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