ABSTRACT
The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such. This debate is advanced by particularising it to the experience of Jews in the modern world. Essays focus on the variety of views of the relationships between the individual Jew and the communities, religious and secular, of which he or she is a member.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
Judaism and the liberal state
chapter Chapter Five|17 pages
Can Judaism Incorporate Human Rights, Democracy, and Personal Autonomy? 1
part |1 pages
Liberty and Authority in Jewish Political Thought
chapter Chapter Seven|14 pages
Is there a Concept of Political Liberty in Medieval Jewish Philosophy?
chapter Chapter Eight|34 pages
Liberty, Authority, and Consent in Judaism
A Maimonidean Reconsitruction of the Biblical Text