Martin Buber - The Hidden Dialogue

In Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue, Dan Avnon analyzes and reconstructs Buber's corpus of mature writings. Avnon's novel reading of Buber's diverse writings on the Bible, Christianity, Judaism, philosophy, socialism, Zionism, and the Jewish-Arab conflict is based on his discovery of a 'hidden' code of writing that grants Buber's apparently eclectic works and literary styles a coherent and unifying hermeneutic center.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Biography: From Mysticism to Dialogue to Attentive Silence Chapter 4 Bible: The Hidden Hermeneutics Chapter 5 Hidden History: The "Two Stream" of Adam Chapter 6 Dialogical Philosophy: Between the Words of Texts and the Content of Thought Chapter 7 Dialogical Community: The Third Way between Individualism and Collectivism Chapter 8 Dialogue as Politics: Zioniam and the (Mis)meeting of Bible, History, Philosophy, and Politics Chapter 9 Abbreviations of Buber's Works Cited in Notes Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Index

About the author

Dan Avnon is senior lecturer of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is editor of a number of books, including The Israeli Parties Law: Between a Legal Framework and Democratic Norms. The author of numerous essays in political theory and comparative politics, he also wrote the script for In Search of the Lost Tribes (a 13-part documentary aired on Israel's Independent Television, 1996). He is editor of Squaring the Circle: Liberalism Between Promise and Practice (forthcoming from Routledge).

Product details

• Authors: Dan Avnon, Avnon Dan
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.1998
• EAN: 9780847686889
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8688-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: 20th Century Political Thinkers
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Translation and interpretation