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Martin 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.

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Author:   Sam Berrin Shonkoff
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.533kg
ISBN:  

9789004377035

ISBN 10:   9004377034
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   16 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface  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

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Sam Berrin Shonkoff, Ph.D. (2018), University of Chicago, is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at Oberlin College. His writings have appeared recently in The Journal of Religion,The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, and Brill’s Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers.

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