Martin Buber

by Mendes-Flohr, Paul R.

• ISBN13: 9780815629375
• ISBN10: 0815629370
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

A critical evaluation of Martin Buber's work and its diverse aspects of modern thought and culture.

Author Biography

Paul Mendes-Flohr is professor of Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Buber's Rhetoric	1	(24)
Paul Mendes-Flohr
Presence, Not Gnosis: Buber as a Historian of Religion	25	(23)
Guy G. Stroumsa
Agnon and Buber: The Story of a Friendship, or: The Rise and Fall of the ``Corpus Hasidicum''	48	(39)
Dan Laor
Buber and the Bible: Guiding Principles and the Legacy of His Interpretation	87	(14)
Karl-Johan Illman
Limmud and Limmudim: Guiding Words of Buber's Prophetic Teaching	101	(19)
Dan Avnon
Justification Through Living: Martin Buber's Third Alternative	120	(13)
Michael Fishbane
How to Be in the World: Gnosis, Religion, Philosophy	133	(15)
Remi Brague
Reply from ``The Single One'': Soren Kierkegaard to Martin Buber	148	(18)
Gillian Rose
Buber and the East Asian (Chinese) Religions	166	(8)
R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
Martin Buber in the Postmodern Age: Utopia, Community, and Education in the Contemporary Era	174	(11)
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Index of Names	185	(3)
Biblical Citations	188	(1)
Citations of Works	189
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