Authors: Maurice S. Friedman
ISBN-13: 9780415284745, ISBN-10: 0415284740
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: REV
Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue , the first study in any language to provide a complete overview of Buber's thought, remains the definitive guide to the full range of his work and the starting point for all modern Buber scholarship. As well as summarizing Buber's early intellectual development and attitudes - his mysticism, his youthful existentialism, his philosophy of Judaism and religious socialism - it focuses on the two crucial issues of his mature thought: his dialogic or I-Thou philosophy, and his probing of the nature and redemption of evil. As a sensitive, intuitive and perennially fascinating account of one of the twentieth century's great spiritual teachers, and as an influential classic in its own right, Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue reveals the implications of Buber's thought for theory of knowledge, education, philosophy, myth, history and Judaic and Christian belief. This fully revised and expanded 4th edition includes a new preface from the author, an expanded bibliography incorporating new Buber scholarship, and two new appendices in the form of essays on Buber's influence on Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin.
Preface to the Fourth Edition | ||
Pt. 1 | Introduction | |
1 | The Narrow Ridge | 3 |
2 | The Problem of Evil | 12 |
3 | Hasidism | 17 |
Pt. 2 | Buber's Early Thought | |
4 | Mysticism | 29 |
5 | Philosophy of Judaism | 34 |
6 | Philosophy of Realization | 38 |
7 | Dialectic of Religion and Culture | 45 |
8 | Community and Religious Socialism | 49 |
9 | Threshold of Dialogue | 55 |
Pt. 3 | Dialogue | |
10 | All Real Living is Meeting | 65 |
11 | The World of It | 71 |
12 | The Eternal Thou | 80 |
13 | What is Man? | 89 |
14 | The Life of Dialogue | 98 |
Pt. 4 | The Nature and Redemption of Evil | |
15 | The Nature of Evil | 117 |
16 | The Eclipse of God | 131 |
17 | The Redemption of Evil | 155 |
18 | For the Sake of Heaven | 174 |
Pt. 5 | Between Man and Man | |
19 | Bud's Theory of Knowledge | 189 |
20 | Education | 207 |
21 | Psychotherapy | 216 |
22 | Ethics | 233 |
23 | Social Philosophy | 245 |
Pt. 6 | Between Man and God | |
24 | Symbol, Myth, and History | 267 |
25 | The Faith of the Bible | 284 |
26 | Buber and Judaism | 307 |
27 | Buber and Christianity | 319 |
Conclusion | 334 | |
App. A | Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas: An ethical query | 337 |
App. B | Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin: The dialogue of voices and the word that is spoken | 353 |
Bibliography | 367 | |
Index | 393 |