Martin Buber: A Contemporary Perspective

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These ten papers are drawn from a conference (date unknown) held at the institution whose founding president was Buber, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. They seek to honor Buber's eclecticism of interest through reappraisals of his arguments and rhetoric in relation to his religious anarchism, philosophy of dialogue, concept of religious faith, history of religion, and anthropological exploration of Hasidism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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These ten papers are drawn from a conference (date unknown) held at the institution whose founding president was Buber, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. They seek to honor Buber's eclecticism of interest through reappraisals of his arguments and rhetoric in relation to his religious anarchism, philosophy of dialogue, concept of religious faith, history of religion, and anthropological exploration of Hasidism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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These ten papers are drawn from a conference (date unknown) held at the institution whose founding president was Buber, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. They seek to honor Buber's eclecticism of interest through reappraisals of his arguments and rhetoric in relation to his religious anarchism, philosophy of dialogue, concept of religious faith, history of religion, and anthropological exploration of Hasidism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780815629375
  • Publisher: Syracuse University Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/2002
  • Series: The Library of Jewish Philosophy
  • Pages: 191
  • Product dimensions: 6.02 (w) x 9.12 (h) x 0.48 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Buber's Rhetoric 1
Presence, Not Gnosis: Buber as a Historian of Religion 25
Agnon and Buber: The Story of a Friendship, or: The Rise and Fall of the "Corpus Hasidicum" 48
Buber and the Bible: Guiding Principles and the Legacy of His Interpretation 87
Limmud and Limmudim: Guiding Words of Buber's Prophetic Teaching 101
Justification Through Living: Martin Buber's Third Alternative 120
How to Be in the World: Gnosis, Religion, Philosophy 133
Reply from "The Single One": Soren Kierkegaard to Martin Buber 148
Buber and the East Asian (Chinese) Religions 166
Martin Buber in the Postmodern Age: Utopia, Community, and Education in the Contemporary Era 174
Index of Names 185
Biblical Citations 188
Citations of Works by Martin Buber 189
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