Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept: Martin Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue and its Contemporary Reception

by Paul Mendes-Flohr (Editor)

Overview

This volume of essays constitutes a critical evaluation of Martin Buber’s concept of dialogue as a trans-disciplinary hermeneutic method. So conceived, dialogue has two distinct but ultimately convergent vectors. The first is directed to the subject of one’s investigation: one is to listen to the voice of the Other and to suspend all predetermined categories and notions that one may have of the Other; dialogue is, first and foremost, the art of unmediated listening. One must allow the voice of the Other to question one’s pre-established positions fortified by professional, emotional, intellectual and ideological commitments. Dialogue is also to be conducted between various disciplinary perspectives despite the regnant tendency to academic specialization. In recent decades‚ an increasing number of scholars have come to share Buber’s position to foster cross-disciplinary conversation, if but to garner, as Max Weber aruged, “useful questions upon which he would not so easily hit upon from his own specialized point of view.” Accordingly, the objective of this volume is to explore the reception of Buber’s philosophy of dialogue in some of the disciplines that fell within the purview of his own writings: Anthropology, Hasidism, Religious Studies, Psychology and Psychiatry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110379150
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	05/29/2015
Series:	Studia Judaica , #83
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Mendes-Flohr, Divinity School, University of Chicago, IL, USA.

Paul Mendes-Flohr, Divinity School, University of Chicago, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Dialogue as a Trans-Disciplinary Concept Paul Mendes-Flohr 1

A Philosophy of Dialogue Jürgen Habermas 7

From Martin Buber's I and Thou to Mikhail Bakhtin's Concept of 'Polyphony' Julia Matveev 21

Politics and Theology: The Debate on Zionism between Hermann Cohen and Martin Buber Jeffrey Andrew Barash 49

Is Theopolitics an Antipolitics? Martin Buber, Anarchism, and the Idea of the Political Samuel Hayim Brody 61

Bubers schöpferischer Dialog mit einer chassidischen Legende Ran HaCohen 89

Religio Today: The Concept of Religion in Martin Buber's Thought Irene Kajon 101

Martin Buber und das Christentum Karl-Josef Kuschel 113

Dialogic Anthropology Yoram Bilu 141

Jüdische Identität im Liminalen und das dialogische Prinzip bei Martin Buber Andreas Kraft 157

The Influence of Martin Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue on Psychotherapy: His Lasting Contribution Henry Abramovitch 169

Almost Buber: Martin Buber's Complex Influence on Family Therapy Alan J. Flashman 183

Dialogic Memory Aleida Assmann 199

Contributors 215

Subject index 217