Martin Buber : creaturely life and social form / edited by Sarah Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, Sarah, editor.

Series:

New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Series.

New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy--Germany.

Jewish philosophy.

Buber, Martin, 1878-1965.

Buber, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

1. Introduction: A Martin Buber Renaissance

Part I: Religious Dialogue

2. Martin Buber and Catholic-Atheist Dialogue

3. Reading Martin Buber's Bible: Translation and

Part II: Theopolitics

4. Is the Dialogue between Heaven and Earth an I-Thou Relation?

5. The Hasidic Zaddik as Theopolitical Leader

Part III: Zionism and Binationalism

6. Exile and Alienation in Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology

7. Martin Buber, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Binationalism

Part IV: Philosophy

8. Chaos, Abgrund, and Wirbel: On Buber's Notion of Ambivalence

9. The Eloquent Muteness of Creatures: Affect and Animals in Martin Buber's Dialogical Writings

10. Monologue Disguised as Dialogue: Almodóvar's Talk to Her and Buber on the "Lovers' Talk"

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed April 29, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Scott, Sarah Martin Buber

ISBN:

9780253063663

0253063663

9780253063656

0253063655

OCLC:

1342622220