{"product_id":"the-jewish-social-contract-9780691122106","title":"The Jewish Social Contract","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBegins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic society, and ends by proposing a broad, inclusive notion of secularity. It shows how social contracts emerged, rooted in biblical notions of covenant, and how they developed in the rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In his ambitious new book, The Jewish Social Contract, David Novak restores the nexus between theology and politics implicit in covenantalism and social contract... [The book] provides a rationale for how orthodox religious people might accept the legitimacy of the democratic, delimited secular orders in which they live.\"--Alan Mittleman, First Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations ix  Preface xi      Chapter One: Formulating the Jewish Social Contract 1  The Democratic Contract 1  The Political Value of the Social Contract 7  A Contract between Minorities 10  Community and Society 12  Claims for Cultural Autonomy 21      Chapter Two: The Covenant 30  Covenant and Social Contract 30  The Noahide Covenant 34  Divine Interest in the Covenant 36  Interhuman Covenants 40  The Covenant between God and Israel 47  Covenants between Jews 53  Covenants between Jews and Gentiles 56  Contracts: Social and Private 59      Chapter Three: The Covenant Reaf .rmed 65  Covenantal Necessity 65  The Voluntary Covenant 70  Covenantal Autonomy 77  Some Social Contracts within Judaism 81      Chapter Four: The Law of the State 91  Political Subordination 91  The Law of the Gentiles 100  Palestine and Babylonia 103  Samuel's Principle 114  Secularity and Secularism 120      Chapter Five: Kingship and Secularity 124  Royal Law 124  Royal Justice 132  Ibn Adret's Halakhic Answer 142  Gerondi's Theological Answer 147  Abravanel's Philosophical Answer 150      Chapter Six: Modern Secularity 157  The Dawn of Modernity 157  Baruch Spinoza: Covenant as Social Contract 158  Moses Mendelssohn: Judaism as a Religious Denomination 164  Religious Pluralism in a Secular State 169  Traditional Judaism Continued in the Secular State 173  Mendelssohn's Problematic Legacy for Judaism 178      Chapter Seven: The Social Contract and Jewish-Christian Relations 188  The New Jewish-Christian Situation 188  Political Theology 195  Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism 201  The Question of Trust 205  Jews, Christians, Atheists, and Secularists 212      Chapter Eight: The Jewish Social Contract in Secular Public Policy 218  Jews, Judaism, and Public Policy 218  Criteria for Jewish Public Policy 223  Jewish Suspicions of General Morality 229  The Unavoidability of General Morality 230  The Political Argument for the Social Contract 235  Jewish Self-Interest and Political Alliances 237      Bibliography 239  Index 251","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403736064343,"sku":"9780691122106","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-jewish-social-contract-9780691122106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}