Dialogue with Deviance: The Hasidic Ethic and the Theory of Social Contraction

By Mordechai Rotenberg

Book Overview

Mordechai Rotenberg, who is known for his work on the impact of Protestant ethics on the Western social sciences, presents here a systematic study derived from, and based upon, Judeo-Hasidic ethics. Proceeding from the cabalistic-Hasidic concept of contraction, according to which God's voluntary withdrawal into Himself to evacuate space for the world serves as a model for human behaviour, the author shows that it is not personal-social construction, but self- and social contraction that explains how the is and the ought of society are developed and maintained.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819189758
• ISBN13: 9780819189752
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"