Hanan Yoran is a lecturer in the department of

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

Ahva Academic College Achva Academic College is a public academic institution located within the jurisdiction of Beer Tuvia Regional Council. The college offers academic studies in science, education, social sciences, and the humanities. It is accredited to grant ...

and at the

Interdisciplinary Center Reichman University ( he, אוניברסיטת רייכמן) is Israel's only private university, located in Herzliya, Tel Aviv District. It was founded in 1994 as the IDC Herzliya private college, before being rebranded in 2021. It receives no ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

Life

Hanan Yoran studied for his BA degree in Mathematics and

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and graduated in 1987. In 1999 he completed his PhD at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

, under the supervision of Professor Rivka Feldhay and Professor Miriam Eliav Feldon. The title of the dissertation was: ''

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' w ...

and

Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord ...

between the

Republic of Letters The Republic of Letters (''Respublica literaria'') is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment, or ''phil ...

and the World of Politics''.

Works

Hanan Yoran main field of interest is intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe, especially the various historical and theoretical aspects of the questions of modernity and secularization. His research focuses on

Renaissance humanism Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term ''humanist'' ( it, umanista) referred to teache ...

, as the intellectual current that undermined the premises of classical and medieval intellectual tradition, and elaborated new language for understanding and representing reality. From this perspective he examined in his book, entitled ''Between Utopia and Dystopia: Erasmus, Thomas More and the Humanist Republic of Letters'', the construction of the identity of the universal intellectual—the autonomous man of letters whose activity do not represent the ideology of a distinct social group, but rather the common good (as he understands it) – by the Erasmus and the humanists gathered around him in the beginning of the 16th century. Yoran also exposed the problems and paradoxes of inherent in this identity as well as the inability of the Erasmian humanists to account for and legitimize it in their own terms. From a similar theoretical point of view, Yoran examined in several articles the ethical and political views developed by various humanists, including More,

Lorenzo Valla Lorenzo Valla (; also Latinized as Laurentius; 14071 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator, scholar, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the ''Do ...

, the Florentine civic humanists and Machiavelli.

Books

* ''Between Utopia and Dystopia: Erasmus, Thomas More, and the Humanist Republic of Letters'', Lanham Md, 2010.

External links

Faculty Page at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Hebrew)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoran, Hanan Israeli historians Contemporary historians Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Tel Aviv University alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni