Overview
In Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue, Dan Avnon analyses and reconstructs Buber's corpus of mature writings, revealing the readical nature of Buber's responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence. This book invites the reader to reexamine conventional notions of the role of language, thought, and writing in communicating impressions of reality. An essential introduction to Buber's work and his unique approach to writing, this book's solution to 'the Buber enigma' is fascinating reading and a valuable addition to scholarship on Buber.
Full Product Details
Author: Dan Avnon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.553kg
ISBN: 9780847686872
ISBN 10: 0847686876
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 June 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a fine 'ab intra' journey that accompanies Buber to the hidden source of Israel's heart, forever covered up by Jacob's descendants and modern, merely clever philosophers. The journey unseals the heart of Buber's mature summons to world history, his subversive prophecy, and Avnon's tough querying of an anguished cry from an open heart.--Elliott Levine
"This is a fine 'ab intra' journey that accompanies Buber to the hidden source of Israel's heart, forever covered up by Jacob's descendants and modern, merely clever philosophers. The journey unseals the heart of Buber's mature summons to world history, his subversive prophecy, and Avnon's tough querying of an anguished cry from an open heart. -- Elliott Levine, University of Winnipeg By taking Buber's way of interpreting the Hebrew Bible through ""guiding words"" [teaching, testimony, disciples, opening the heart, turning] and applying it to Buber's own writings, Dan Avnon has discovered an essential core of Buber's thought. This core unites Buber's seemingly disparate work in interpreting the Hebrew Bible, retelling Hasidic tales, pointing toward the life of dialogue, restructuring society toward a ""community of communities,"" and Zionism. Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue is a bold and exciting book that will fascinate not only readers the world over who are familiar with Buber's work but also many who do not yet know Buber yet are, like him, seekers of the 'hidden light.' -- Maurice Friedman, author of Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber Avnon's book will inspire more readers to encounter Buber in this way. * Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies * This book will be of value to those with a substantial interest in Buber. -- Michael A. Principe * Philosophy in Review *"
Author Information
Dan Avon is Senior Lecturer of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the editor of The Israeli Parties Law: Between a Legal Framework and Democratic Norms and The government of Israel (with Itzhak Galnoor), as well as the author of many articles and the script for In Search of the Lost Tribes (a 13 part documentary aired on Israel's Independent Television, 1996).
