Walzer Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2720-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics

Michael Walzer is a permanent member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of The Revolution of the Saints, Just and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, Toleration, and Politics and Passion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walzer, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Michael Walzer vii

PART I: POLITICAL ORDER AND CIVIL SOCIETY 1

Chapter One: Obligation: A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order by Robert M. Cover 3

Chapter Two: Judaism and Civil Society by Suzanne Last Stone 12

Chapter Three: Civil Society and Government by Noam J. Zohar 34

Chapter Four: Autonomy and Modernity by David Biale 50

PART II: TERRITORY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY 55

Chapter Five: Land and People by David Novak 57

Chapter Six: Contested Boundaries: Visions of a Shared World by Noam J. Zohar 83

Chapter Seven: Diversity, Tolerance, and Sovereignty by Menachem Fisch 96

Chapter Eight: Responses to Modernity by Adam B. Seligman 121

Chapter Nine: Judaism and Cosmopolitanism by David Novak 128

PART III: WAR AND PEACE 147

Chapter Ten: Commanded and Permitted Wars by Michael Walzer 149

Chapter Eleven: Prohibited Wars by Aviezer Ravitzky 169

Chapter Twelve: Judaism and the Obligation to Die for the State by Geoffrey B. Levey 182

Contributors 209

Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Walzer is a permanent member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of The Revolution of the Saints, Just and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, Toleration, and Politics and Passion.