New Perspectives On Martin Buber

Author : Michael Zank
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3161489985

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New Perspectives on Martin Buber by Michael Zank Pdf

This volume brings a range of perspectives to bear on the writings and thought of Martin Buber (1878-1965). The contributing authors include renowned Buber specialists who take a new look at Buber's legacy, as well as younger scholars who work in a variety of academic disciplines and contexts, including biblical studies, religious studies, philosophy, intellectual history, sociology, the study of education, and Jewish thought. By relating the legacy of Buber to their respective area of research, they are able to articulate what they find of enduring relevance in Buber's thought and writings. The purpose is to explore new perspectives on Buber and on themes and issues on which he had something to say that continues to engage us. The sixteen essays are grouped in six parts, roughly proceeding in the chronological order of Buber's work, reflecting shifts in his preoccupation and changes in his orientation. The larger themes also represent different approaches to, and perspectives on, Buber's writings in general, including critical retrospectives on his philosophy of dialogue, his political utopianism, and his approach to Hasidism.

Author : Simon Ravenscroft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429818592

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An Analysis of Martin Buber's I and Thou by Simon Ravenscroft Pdf

Martin Buber’s I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an ‘I’ towards an ‘It’, where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the attitude of an ‘I’ towards a ‘Thou’, where the self enters into real relation with other people, or nature, or God. Addressing modern technological society, Buber claims that while the ‘I-It’ attitude is necessary for existence, human life finds its meaning in personal relationships of the ‘I-Thou’ sort. I and Thou is Buber’s masterpiece, the basis of his religious philosophy of dialogue, and among the most influential studies of the human condition in the 20th century.

Author : Edie Lanphar,Agata Wilczek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848883772

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Understanding New Perspectives of Spirituality by Edie Lanphar,Agata Wilczek Pdf

Author : S. Daniel Breslauer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527531376

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Martin Buber’s Myth of Zion by S. Daniel Breslauer Pdf

The book provides an insightful study of the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, and combines a review of the unconventional Zionism he proposed with a sensitivity to myth as the basis of an inclusive civil religion. The multifaceted nature of this work examines Buber’s embrace of myth, and his application of myth to both biblical studies and political theory. It pays special attention to the way Buber’s thinking about Zion applied to religious ethical issues such as ecology, education, ritual, and, as a continuing theme throughout the book, to the conflict between those Buber called Jews and Arabs in the land of Palestine.

Author : David Lewin,Alexandre Guilherme,Morgan White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472513366

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New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education by David Lewin,Alexandre Guilherme,Morgan White Pdf

New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education seeks to build a bridge between philosophical reflection and socio-political action by developing a range of critical discussions in the areas of ethics, politics and religion. This volume brings together established authorities and a new generation of scholars to ask whether philosophy of education can contribute to political and social discourse, or whether it is destined to remain the marginal gadfly of mainstream ideology. The philosophy of education stands in danger of becoming a neglected field at precisely the moment we need to be able to reflect upon the increasingly apparent costs of the technocratic attitude to education. While many of the educational policy discussions of recent years seem far-reaching and radical, critical debate surrounding these initiatives remain largely at a populist level. New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education provides contemporary responses to philosophical issues that bear upon educational studies, policies and practices, contributing to the debate on the role of philosophy of education in an increasingly fractured intellectual milieu.

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000377927

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Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline by Paul Marcus Pdf

The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of spirit." Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed, asserting, "Yes, spirit is everything." However, spirit and the spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book seeks to help revitalize a culturally aging psychoanalysis that is in conceptual and clinical disarray in the marketplace of ideas and is viewed as a "theory in crisis" no longer regarded as the primary therapy for those who are suffering. The author argues that psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be reinvigorated as a discipline if it is animated by the powerfully evocative spiritual, moral, and ethical insights of two dialogical personalist religious philosophers—Martin Buber, a Jew, and Gabriel Marcel, a Catholic—who both initiated a "Copernican revolution" in human thought. In chapters that focus on love, work, faith, suffering, and clinical practice, Paul Marcus shows how the spiritual optic of Buber and Marcel can help revive and refresh psychoanalysis, and bring it back into the light by communicating its inherent vitality, power, and relevance to the mental health community and to those who seek psychoanalytic treatment.

Author : Sarah Scott
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253063663

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Martin Buber by Sarah Scott Pdf

A new collection of essays highlighting the wide range of Buber's thought, career, and activism. Best known for I and Thou, which laid out his distinction between dialogic and monologic relations, Martin Buber (1878–1965) was also an anthologist, translator, and author of some seven hundred books and papers. Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form, edited by Sarah Scott, is a collection of nine essays that explore his thought and career. Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form shakes up the legend of Buber by decentering the importance of the I-Thou dialogue in order to highlight Buber as a thinker preoccupied by the image of relationship as a guide to spiritual, social, and political change. The result is a different Buber than has hitherto been portrayed, one that is characterized primarily by aesthetics and politics rather than by epistemology or theology. Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form will serve as a guide to the entirety of Buber's thinking, career, and activism, placing his work in context and showing both the evolution of his thought and the extent to which he remained driven by a persistent set of concerns.

Author : Martin Buber
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826476937

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I and Thou by Martin Buber Pdf

'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber (1897-19) was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art at the universities of Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, he became an active Zionist and was closely involved in the revival of Hasidism. Recognised as a landmark of twentieth century intellectual history, I and Thou is Buber's masterpiece. In this book, his enormous learning and wisdom are distilled into a simple, but compelling vision. It proposes nothing less than a new form of the Deity for today, a new form of human being and of a good life. In so doing, it addresses all religious and social dimensions of the human personality. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith>

Author : Shmuel Feiner,David Sorkin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909821316

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New Perspectives on the Haskalah by Shmuel Feiner,David Sorkin Pdf

Revises our understanding of the relationship between the Haskalah, Orthodoxy, and hasidism, reassesses the role of key individuals in the movement, and offers a new, more nuanced, definition of the Haskalah. Should be of interest to all students of modern Jewish history, literature, and culture in eighteenth-century Germany and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century.

Author : Martina Urban
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226842738

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Aesthetics of Renewal by Martina Urban Pdf

Martin Buber’s embrace of Hasidism at the start of the twentieth century was instrumental to the revival of this popular form of Jewish mysticism. Hoping to instigate a Jewish cultural and spiritual renaissance, he published a series of anthologies of Hasidic teachings written in German to introduce the tradition to a wide audience. In Aesthetics of Renewal, Martina Urban closely analyzes Buber’s writings and sources to explore his interpretation of Hasidic spirituality as a form of cultural criticism. For Buber, Hasidic legends and teachings were not a static, canonical body of knowledge, but were dynamic and open to continuous reinterpretation. Urban argues that this representation of Hasidism was essential to the Zionist effort to restore a sense of unity across the Jewish diaspora as purely religious traditions weakened—and that Buber’s anthologies in turn played a vital part in the broad movement to use cultural memory as a means to reconstruct a collective identity for Jews. As Urban unravels the rich layers of Buber’s vision of Hasidism in this insightful book, he emerges as one of the preeminent thinkers on the place of religion in modern culture.

Author : Martin Buber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780684717258

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I And Thou by Martin Buber Pdf

A modern translation clarifying the philosophical implications and use of words in the classic work of the Jewish religious scholar.

Author : Sam Berrin Shonkoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004377042

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Martin Buber by Sam Berrin Shonkoff Pdf

Martin Buber: His Intellectual and Scholarly Legacy is a unique volume on one of the most pivotal figures of modern Jewish thought. These essays by leading scholars explore Buber’s influential dialogues with Christianity, politics, philosophy, and Jewish sources.

Author : Robert Erlewine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253022394

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Judaism and the West by Robert Erlewine Pdf

Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers—Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik—to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically contextualizes Jewish philosophy as part of the West. He teases out the antagonistic and overlapping attempts of Jewish thinkers to elucidate the philosophical and cultural meaning of Judaism when others sought to deny and even expel Jewish influences. By reading the canon of Jewish philosophy in this new light, Erlewine offers insight into how Jewish thinkers used religion to assert their individuality and modernity.

Author : Samuel Hayim Brody
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253030221

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Martin Buber's Theopolitics by Samuel Hayim Brody Pdf

How did one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century grapple with the founding of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one of the most significant political conflicts of his time? Samuel Hayim Brody traces the development of Martin Buber's thinking and its implications for the Jewish religion, for the problems posed by Zionism, and for the Zionist-Arab conflict. Beginning in turbulent Weimar Germany, Brody shows how Buber's debates about Biblical meanings had concrete political consequences for anarchists, socialists, Zionists, Nazis, British, and Palestinians alike. Brody further reveals how Buber's passionate commitment to the rule of God absent an intermediary came into conflict in the face of a Zionist movement in danger of repeating ancient mistakes. Brody argues that Buber's support for Israel stemmed from a radically rich and complex understanding of the nature of the Jewish mission on earth that arose from an anarchist reading of the Bible.

Author : W. John Morgan,Alexandre Guilherme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135067748

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Buber and Education by W. John Morgan,Alexandre Guilherme Pdf

Martin Buber (1878-1965) is considered one of the 20th century‘s greatest thinkers and his contributions to philosophy, theology and education are testimony to this. This book brings together aspects of Buber‘s philosophy and educational practice, and explains their significance for peace dialogue and for conflict resolution, both between individuals and communities.