Hope for Our Time, livre ebook

Uncovers the underlying structures of Martin Buber's thought across his diverse writings.

Uncovers the underlying structures of Martin Buber's thought across his diverse writings.

Martin Buber's work ranged across disciplines and modes of expression to include philosophy, religion, social studies, and literature. Buber never presented a comprehensive statement of his worldview in any of his central works and repeated time and again that he had no "doctrine." In this book, Avraham Shapira traces the history of Buber's ideas and locates underlying structures which unite Buber's thought. Ultimately, Hope for Our Time shows the connection between Buber's philosophy and his spiritual biography.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Comments on Buber's Means of Expression

1. Polar Duality

2. The Cause and the Person: Destiny and Vocation

3. A Divided Heart and Man's Double

4. Existential Tensions and Early Struggles

5. A Conversion

6. Duality and Its Structures

7. Distance - Relation

8. Vortex - Direction

9. Moment - Eternity

10. Concluding Remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Index