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Social vision : the Lubavitcher Rebbe's transformative paradigm for the world
- Title
- Social vision : the Lubavitcher Rebbe's transformative paradigm for the world / Philip Wexler ; with Eli Rubin & Michael Wexler.
- Author
- Wexler, Philip
- Publication
- New York : A Herder & Herder Book, the Crossroad Publishing Company, [2019]
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-357 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxvi, 265 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Social Vision is a breakthrough work of scholarship by Professor Philip Wexler, a leading sociologist and expert on education. Wexler distills Schneerson's voluminous public teachings, letters, and private conversations to make his ideas accessible to the general reader, and demonstrates the enduring relevance of Schneerson's teachings to the manifold crises of modern life, politics, and culture."--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: In search of a new beginning: an introductory retrospective -- Shattering the iron cage: from the Protestant ethic to the Hasidic ethos -- From catastrophe to renaissance: the Rebbe and Hasidism in America -- The social constitution of Hasidism and the divinization of the cosmos -- The principle of reciprocity between self, community, and cosmos -- Learning how to live: public education as social repair -- Socio-mystical justice, humanism, and ecology -- Epilogue: The dynamic of disenchantment and reenchantment in the past and future.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-357
- ISBN
- 9780824550387
- 0824550382
- OCLC
- 1104602818
- Author
- Wexler, Philip, author.
- Title
- Social vision : the Lubavitcher Rebbe's transformative paradigm for the world / Philip Wexler ; with Eli Rubin & Michael Wexler.
- Publisher
- New York : A Herder & Herder Book, the Crossroad Publishing Company, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
- Added Author
- Rubin, Eli, author.Wexler, Michael, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-357