I and Thou

I and Thou
Author: Martin Buber
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2004-12-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826476937

'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber (1897-19) was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art at the universities of Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, he became an active Zionist and was closely involved in the revival of Hasidism. Recognised as a landmark of twentieth century intellectual history, I and Thou is Buber's masterpiece. In this book, his enormous learning and wisdom are distilled into a simple, but compelling vision. It proposes nothing less than a new form of the Deity for today, a new form of human being and of a good life. In so doing, it addresses all religious and social dimensions of the human personality. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith>

Buber's Way to "I and Thou"

Buber's Way to
Author: Rivka Horwitz
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1988
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Rivka Howitz's pioneering work traces the development of Martin Buber's 1937 masterpiece, I and Thou, from its earliest stages.

Martin Buber's Spirituality

Martin Buber's Spirituality
Author: Kenneth Paul Kramer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2023-06-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1442213698

How do we find meaning in our life? This book explores how Martin Buber, one of the 20th century’s greatest religious thinkers, answers this timeless question. Author Kenneth Paul Kramer explains Buber’s Hasidic spirituality—a living connection between the human and the divine—and how it is relevant to all spiritual seekers. According to Buber, we find meaning in life through wholeheartedly “letting God in." He developed this theme through six thought-provoking talks originally published as The Way of Man. In Martin Buber’s Spirituality, Kramer explains the accessible practices Buber outlined in these talks, shares the stories Buber used to illustrate each point, and explores how these teachings might apply in everyday life today. The book features questions for personal or group reflection to help readers more fully explore Martin Buber’s approach to spirituality, along with a glossary of key terms.

Aesthetics of Renewal

Aesthetics of Renewal
Author: Martina Urban
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226842738

Martin Buber’s embrace of Hasidism at the start of the twentieth century was instrumental to the revival of this popular form of Jewish mysticism. Hoping to instigate a Jewish cultural and spiritual renaissance, he published a series of anthologies of Hasidic teachings written in German to introduce the tradition to a wide audience. In Aesthetics of Renewal, Martina Urban closely analyzes Buber’s writings and sources to explore his interpretation of Hasidic spirituality as a form of cultural criticism. For Buber, Hasidic legends and teachings were not a static, canonical body of knowledge, but were dynamic and open to continuous reinterpretation. Urban argues that this representation of Hasidism was essential to the Zionist effort to restore a sense of unity across the Jewish diaspora as purely religious traditions weakened—and that Buber’s anthologies in turn played a vital part in the broad movement to use cultural memory as a means to reconstruct a collective identity for Jews. As Urban unravels the rich layers of Buber’s vision of Hasidism in this insightful book, he emerges as one of the preeminent thinkers on the place of religion in modern culture.

The Prophetic Faith

The Prophetic Faith
Author: Martin Buber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0691166242

The author brings to a focus his interpretation of biblical religion as an existential confrontation between God and man in which God calls man, individual and collectivee, to decision; man responds, and God judges.

Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings

Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings
Author: Hune Margulies
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1527580318

This book is an in-depth conversation between philosophies of Dialogue, particularly as espoused by Martin Buber, and teachings from the wisdom traditions of the East, particularly Zen Buddhism and its Pure Land School. It argues that God is the between of I and Thou. Writings from Sufism, Hasidism, Hinduism and other spiritual traditions are excerpted as well, as they all draw their teachings from similar primordial moments of deep poetic insight. Dialogical philosophy articulates the principle of relationship, which is discussed throughout the book in its various contexts and different modalities.

Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline

Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline
Author: Paul Marcus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 100037792X

The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of spirit." Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed, asserting, "Yes, spirit is everything." However, spirit and the spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book seeks to help revitalize a culturally aging psychoanalysis that is in conceptual and clinical disarray in the marketplace of ideas and is viewed as a "theory in crisis" no longer regarded as the primary therapy for those who are suffering. The author argues that psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be reinvigorated as a discipline if it is animated by the powerfully evocative spiritual, moral, and ethical insights of two dialogical personalist religious philosophers—Martin Buber, a Jew, and Gabriel Marcel, a Catholic—who both initiated a "Copernican revolution" in human thought. In chapters that focus on love, work, faith, suffering, and clinical practice, Paul Marcus shows how the spiritual optic of Buber and Marcel can help revive and refresh psychoanalysis, and bring it back into the light by communicating its inherent vitality, power, and relevance to the mental health community and to those who seek psychoanalytic treatment.

The Way of Man

The Way of Man
Author: Martin Buber
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1966
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780806500249

On Judaism

On Judaism
Author: Martin Buber
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-06-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307834085

Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer With a new Foreword by Rodger Kamenetz “The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews. Why do we call ourselves Jews? I want to speak to you not of an abstraction but of your own life . . . its authenticity and essence.” With these words, Martin Buber takes us on a journey into the heart of Judaism—its spirit, vision, and relevance to modern life.

Martin Buber's Philosophy of "encounter" and "dialogue" and the Spiritual Life of Young Human Beings Birth to Three

Martin Buber's Philosophy of
Author: Frances Joan Rofrano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006
Genre: Infants
ISBN: 9780542914300

The purpose of this dissertation is the reconceptualization of the "infant" as a young human being through the lens of philosophical anthropology presented by the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. I argue young human beings are whole human beings, body, psyche and spirit. Spirit is defined as the organizing principle of the narrative self of the child. By receiving the narrative self of the child, spirit is met in the "between" dialogical I/Thou relationships. Having both power and agency, young human beings are dialogical partners with caring adults and other children in the creation of their individual narrative of self and are contributors to the creation of our world view. Theory construction is the method employed. This thesis connects D.W. Winnicott's object relations theory of transitional phenomena, a theory about the coming "to be" of the young human being with Buber's philosophy of the ontic nature of relationships. Seeking to create a theory about the spiritual life of the young human being neither cut short by an allegiance to any religious dogma nor driven by feelings alone necessitates using the language Nel Noddings offers us in her ethics of care. Observational data of infants from the researcher's infant care/educational practice is drawn upon to offer examples of this theory brought into infant classroom. Each part is in dialogue with the whole of infant/toddler curriculum to create a unique community of learners-a We Community. Chapter one offers a brief genealogy of philosophical anthropology. Chapter two presents Buber's principium humanum. In chapter three Buber provides the ontological reality of the human's desire for relationship as D. W. Winnicott explains the developmental perspective of it. Chapter three focuses on the I/Thou relationship of the mother/infant dyad. Here a third relationship, I/Spirit, is introduced. Chapter four connects Nodding to Buber and is used as a theoretical framework for infant care/education. Chapter five brings theory into practice offering the reader a sample of an infant curriculum that takes spirit seriously.