| Dialogue with Deviance: The Hasidic Ethic and the Theory of Social Contraction Contributor(s): Rotenberg, Mordechai (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819189758 ISBN-13: 9780819189752 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $33.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Reference |
| Dewey: 306.696 |
| LCCN: 93006901 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |