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Book SynopsisMartin Buber: His Intellectual and Scholarly Legacy is a collection of contemporary reflections on one of the most pivotal figures of modern Jewish thought. Born in Austria and reared in Galicia, Buber (1878-1965) became a spiritual representative of Judaism in German culture before emigrating to Jerusalem on the brink of the Shoah. His prolific writings on matters spanning the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to Hasidism and Zionism inspired diverse audiences throughout the world. In this volume, Sam Berrin Shonkoff has curated an illuminating array of essays on Buber’s thought by leading intellectuals from five different countries. Their treatments of Buber’s dialogues with Christianity, politics, philosophy, and Judaism exhibit Buber’s ramified legacy and will surely stimulate fruitful discussion in our own time.
Table of ContentsPreface Sam Berrin Shonkoff part 1
Dialogues with Christianity 1 Theolatry and the Making-Present of the Nonrepresentable: Undoing (A)Theism in Eckhart and Buber Elliot R. Wolfson 2 Defining Christianity and Judaism from the Perspective of Religious Anarchy: Martin Buber on Jesus and the Ba‘al Shem Tov Shaul Magid 3 “Companionable Being”: American Theologians Engage Martin Buber W. Clark Gilpin 4 Beyond the Law and Without the Cross: Martin Buber and Saint Paul as an Apostolic Competition between “Two Types of Faith” Christoph Schmidt part 2
Dialogues with the Political 5 The Hard and the Soft: Moments in the Reception of Martin Buber as a Political Thinker Samuel Hayim Brody 6 Versions of Binationalism in Said and Buber Judith Butler 7 Martin Buber’s Socialism Michael Löwy 8 Buber’s Provocation Paul Mendes-Flohr part 3
Dialogues with Philosophy and Philosophers 9 From Genius to Taste: Martin Buber’s Aestheticism Sarah Scott 10 The Paradox of Realization: Buber on the Transcendental Boundary of Spatial Images Martina Urban 11 Martin Buber and Leo Strauss: Notes on a Strained Relationship Philip von Wussow 12 Martin Buber and the Problem of Dialogue in Contemporary Thought Hans Joas part 4
Dialogues with Jewish Sources 13 Religious Authenticity and Spiritual Resistance: Martin Buber and Biblical Hermeneutics Michael Fishbane 14 Buber’s Biblical Hermeneutics and Education—Some New Perspectives Jonathan Cohen 15 The Tragedy of the Messianic Dialectic: Buber’s Novel Gog and Magog Fumio Ono 16 Sacramental Existence and Embodied Theology in Buber’s Representation of Ḥasidism Sam Berrin Shonkoff Index
