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Sep. 21, 1970

Letter to R. Borowitz about Reworking "Man and Society" (1970)

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Dear Lily, Many thanks for your letter on the Lamm MS. I am not quite certain what gives me, the midwife, so much personal pride in your reaction to the baby, but I was delighted at your response. As I see it, the problems now are relatively simple. (1) As to the rearranged table of contents: it makes a good deal of sense to me. I did check with Norman's original order for the materials, and yours is closer to it than the one I suggested and he was nice enough to accept. May I suggest some minor modifications in your own suggestion, and explain my reasoning. I like the widening circles of the three major divisions you have set out. But I think they could be a little more logical in progression, though that is not a necessity. Thus, I think starting with the Agnon is enough to grab anyone's interest and keep him in the book for the rest of the way.But it seems to me item Z, *Imitating God*, belongs in the last section with *Men to God: The Big Questions*. And since it is somewhat difficult, that is a good place for it. But *Conflict Among Jews* (why not simply *Conflict Among Neighbors?* since its content is quite universal) could well come in the early section since it deals with the sort of animosities that corrupt face-to-face relations.Another not-so-important idea would be to rearrange Part II, where it seems to me that business comes before community leadership — i.e., your chapter 6 should precede chapter Z. Business is not as broad as community organization and might well come before it. And that would allow us to go from community leadership to the dialogue chapter, which is a sort of inter-community issue.I can see the desirability of brief introductions to the three parts of the book. Wolf did not do this, but Kling did. I only hasten to add that Kling's were very brief, and I think we should keep anything of this sort to the briefest space necessary to stake out the specific theme of the following chapters.But I don't particularly get moved by adding ano…
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