Law, politics, and morality in Judaism / edited and with a preface by Michael Walzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walzer, Michael.

Series:

Ethikon series in comparative ethics

The Ethikon series in comparative ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish law--Moral and ethical aspects.

Jewish law.

Public law (Jewish law).

Judaism and state.

Law--Israel--Jewish influences.

Law.

Israel.

Physical Description:

xi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]

Summary:

Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be today to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular democratic states? Can a culture of exile be adapted to help Jews find ways of being at home politically today? These questions are central in Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism, a collection of essays by contemporary political theorists, philosophers, and lawyers.

How does Jewish law accommodate-or fail to accommodate-the practice of democratic citizenship? What range of religious toleration and pluralism is compatible with traditional Judaism? What forms of coexistence between Jews and non-Jews are required by shared citizenship? How should Jews operating within halakah (Jewish law) and Jewish history judge the use of force by modern states?

The authors assembled here by prominent political theorist Michael Walzer come from different points on the religious-secular spectrum, and they differ greatly in their answers to such questions. But they all enact the relationship at issue since their answers, while based on critical Jewish texts, also reflect their commitments as democratic citizens.

Contents:

Part I Political Order and Civil Society 1

1 Obligation: A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order / Robert M. Cover 3

2 Judaism and Civil Society / Suzanne Last Stone 12

3 Civil Society and Government / Noam J. Zohar 34

4 Autonomy and Modernity / David Biale 50

Part II Territory, Sovereignty, and International Society 55

5 Land and People / David Novak 57

6 Contested Boundaries: Visions of a Shared World / Noam J. Zohar 83

7 Diversity, Tolerance, and Sovereignty / Menachem Fisch 96

8 Responses to Modernity / Adam B. Seligman 121

9 Judaism and Cosmopolitanism / David Novak 128

Part III War and Peace 147

10 Commanded and Permitted Wars / Michael Walzer 149

11 Prohibited Wars / Aviezer Ravitzky 169

12 Judaism and the Obligation to Die for the State / Geoffrey B. Levey 182.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691125074

0691125082

OCLC:

62732784

Publisher Number:

9780691125077

9780691125084