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The first book on Buber to address the full scope of his seminal influence for any number of thinkers and fields from philosophy to psychotherapy to literary theory
The specific focus of Martin Buber and the Human Sciences is "dialogue" as the foundation of and integrating factor in the human sciences, using dialogue in the special sense which Buber has made famous: mutuality, presentness, openness, meeting the other in his or her uniqueness and not just as a content for one's own thought categories, and knowing as deriving in the first instance from mutual contact rather than knowledge of a subject about an object. By the "human sciences" the authors/editors mean material that can be meaningfully approached in a dialogic way, hence, the humanities, education, psychology, speech communication, anthropology, history, sociology, and economics. The essays in Martin Buber and the Human Sciences demonstrate that thirty years after Buber's death his influence is still resonating in many countries and in many fields.
"This book is timely/past due for a current follow up source to identify the influences of this major twentieth-century thinker on his successors. I found the book hard to put down—despite coming across my desk at a busy end of term. Clearly Buber's influence has been acknowledged within individual academic disciplines, clearly as a seminal thinker his influence should be widespread in principle. A current and accessible single volume such as this that demonstrates the breadth of his impact is most welcome and valuable.
I have been looking for a work of this sort for some time. I was delighted at the fresh breath presented by so many of the authors." — Elliott M. Levine, University of Winnipeg
"The papers included in this volume attest to the very wide range of human concerns for which the work of Martin Buber continues to have seminal importance and provocative implications. What is most interesting is the extraordinary range of topics addressed in the collection, under the rubric of 'the human sciences.' The elucidation of that term is itself an important contribution, and Friedman's discussion/explanation of the term in his essay is essential." — Donald L. Berry, Colgate University
Preface
Executive Editor's Note on Abbreviations
Part I. Introduction
1. Martin Buber's "Narrow Ridge" and the Human Sciences
Maurice Friedman
Part II. Philosophy and Religion
Introduction
Seymour Cain and Maurice Friedman
2. To Be is to Be Relational: Martin Buber and John Dewey
Arthur S. Lothstein
3. Is a Dialogical Theology Possible?
Manfred Vogel
4. Into Life: The Legacy of Jewish Tradition in Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue
S. Daniel Breslauer
5. Martin Buber's Biblical and Jewish Ethics
Richard A. Freund
6. Martin Buber and Christian Theology: A Continuing Dialogue
Donald J. Moore, S.J.
7. Buber, the Via Negativa, and Zen
G. Ray Jordan, Jr.
8. I and Tao: Buber's Chuang Tzu and the Comparative Study of Mysticism
Jonathan R. Herman
9. Dialogue and Difference: "I and Thou" or "We and They"?
Seymour Cain
Part III. The Written and the Spoken Word: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, and Literature
Introduction
John Stewart
10. Two of Buber's Contributions to Contemporary Human Science: Text as Spokenness and Validity as Resonance
John Stewart
11. Martin Buber's Dialogical Biblical Hermeneutics
Steven Kepnes
12. Dialogue in Public: Looking Critically at the Buber-Rogers Dialogue
Kenneth N. Cissna and Rob Anderson
13. Deception and the Relational: Martin Buber and Sisela Bok—Against the Generation of the Lie
Virginia Shabatay
14. The Interhuman Dimension of Teaching: Some Ethical Aspects
Aslaug Kristiansen
15. Martin Buber's Concept of Art as Dialogue
Goutam Biswas
16. Martin Buber and King Lear
Pat Boni
Part IV. Economics, Politics, and History
Introduction
Lawrence Baron
17. Buber's Way Toward Sustainable Communitarian Socialism: Essential Relationship Between the Political and Bio-Economy
Robert C. Hoover
18. The Relevance of Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology for Economic Thought
Mark A. Lutz
19. Martin Buber's Impact on Political Dialogue in Israel
Michael Keren
20. Martin Buber and the Shoah
Jerry D. Lawritson
Part V. Dialogical Psychotherapy and Contextual (Intergenerational Family) Therapy
Introduction
Virginia Shabatay
21. What is—Psychotherapy?
James V. Deleo
22. Philosophy of Dialogue and Feminist Psychology
Rose Graf-Taylor
23. Problems of Confirmation in Psychotherapy
Tamar Kron and Maurice Friedman
24. The Wisdom of Resistance: A Dialogical Psychotherapy Approach
Rich Hycner
25. Reflections on the Buber-Rogers Dialogue: Thirty-Five Years After
Maurice Friedman
26. Relational Ethics in Contextual Therapy:Commitment to Our Common Future
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
27. Ethical Imagination: Repairing the Breach
Barbara R. Krasner and Austin J. Joyce
List of Contributors
Index