Martin Buber and the Human Sciences

Maurice Friedman

Description

The specific focus of Martin Buber and the Human Sciences is "dialogue" as the foundation of and integrating factor in the human sciences, using dialogue in the special sense which Buber has made famous: mutuality, presentness, openness, meeting the other in his or her uniqueness and not just as a content for one's own thought categories, and knowing as deriving in the first instance from mutual contact rather than knowledge of a subject about an object. By the "human sciences" the authors/editors mean material that can be meaningfully approached in a dialogic way, hence, the humanities, education, psychology, speech communication, anthropology, history, sociology, and economics. The essays in Martin Buber and the Human Sciences demonstrate that thirty years after Buber's death his influence is still resonating in many countries and in many fields.

Preface

Executive Editor's Note on Abbreviations

Part I. Introduction

1. Martin Buber's "Narrow Ridge" and the Human Sciences
Maurice Friedman

Part II. Philosophy and Religion

Introduction
Seymour Cain and Maurice Friedman

2. To Be is to Be Relational: Martin Buber and John Dewey
Arthur S. Lothstein

3. Is a Dialogical Theology Possible?
Manfred Vogel

4. Into Life: The Legacy of Jewish Tradition in Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue
S. Daniel Breslauer

5. Martin Buber's Biblical and Jewish Ethics
Richard A. Freund

6. Martin Buber and Christian Theology: A Continuing Dialogue
Donald J. Moore, S.J.

7. Buber, the Via Negativa, and Zen
G. Ray Jordan, Jr.

8. I and Tao: Buber's Chuang Tzu and the Comparative Study of Mysticism
Jonathan R. Herman

9. Dialogue and Difference: "I and Thou" or "We and They"?
Seymour Cain

Part III. The Written and the Spoken Word: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, and Literature

Introduction
John Stewart

10. Two of Buber's Contributions to Contemporary Human Science: Text as Spokenness and Validity as Resonance
John Stewart

11. Martin Buber's Dialogical Biblical Hermeneutics
Steven Kepnes

12. Dialogue in Public: Looking Critically at the Buber-Rogers Dialogue
Kenneth N. Cissna and Rob Anderson

13. Deception and the Relational: Martin Buber and Sisela Bok—Against the Generation of the Lie
Virginia Shabatay

14. The Interhuman Dimension of Teaching: Some Ethical Aspects
Aslaug Kristiansen

15. Martin Buber's Concept of Art as Dialogue
Goutam Biswas

16. Martin Buber and King Lear
Pat Boni

Part IV. Economics, Politics, and History

Introduction
Lawrence Baron

17. Buber's Way Toward Sustainable Communitarian Socialism: Essential Relationship Between the Political and Bio-Economy
Robert C. Hoover

18. The Relevance of Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology for Economic Thought
Mark A. Lutz

19. Martin Buber's Impact on Political Dialogue in Israel
Michael Keren

20. Martin Buber and the Shoah
Jerry D. Lawritson

Part V. Dialogical Psychotherapy and Contextual (Intergenerational Family) Therapy

Introduction
Virginia Shabatay

21. What is—Psychotherapy?
James V. Deleo

22. Philosophy of Dialogue and Feminist Psychology
Rose Graf-Taylor

23. Problems of Confirmation in Psychotherapy
Tamar Kron and Maurice Friedman

24. The Wisdom of Resistance: A Dialogical Psychotherapy Approach
Rich Hycner

25. Reflections on the Buber-Rogers Dialogue: Thirty-Five Years After
Maurice Friedman

26. Relational Ethics in Contextual Therapy:Commitment to Our Common Future
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy

27. Ethical Imagination: Repairing the Breach
Barbara R. Krasner and Austin J. Joyce

List of Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Philosophy

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438403373
• Langue: English
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MARTIN BUBER
AND THE
HUMAN SCIENCES MARTIN BUBER
AND THE
HUMAN SCIENCES
Editor-in-Chief
Maurice Friedman
Executive Editor
Pat Boni
Associate Editors
Lawrence Baron,
Seymour Cain,
Virginia Shabatay,
and John Stewart
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents
Preface ix
Executive Editor's Note on Abbreviations xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION
Martin Buber's "Narrow Ridge" Chapter 1
and the Human Sciences
MAURICE FRIEDMAN 3
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION PART II
Introduction
SEYMOUR CAIN AND MAURICE FRIEDMAN 29
Chapter 2 To Be is to Be Relational:
Martin Buber and John Dewey
ARTHUR S. LOTH STEIN 33
Chapter 3 Is a Dialogical Theology Possible?
MANFRED VOGEL 51
Chapter 4 Into Life: The Legacy of Jewish Tradition
in Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue
S. DANIEL BRESLAUER 65
Martin Buber's Biblical and Jewish Ethics Chapter 5
RICHARD A. FREUND 77
v VI CONTENTS
Chapter 6 Martin Buber and Christian Theology:
A Continuing Dialogue
DONALD J. MOORE, s.J. 93
Chapter 7 Buber, the Via Negativa, and Zen
G. RAY JORDAN, JR. 107
Chapter 8 I and Tao: Buber's Chuang Tzu and
the Comparative Study of Mysticism
JONATHAN R. HERMAN 115
Chapter 9 Dialogue and Difference: "I and Thou" or
"We and They"?
SEYMOUR CAIN 135
PART III THE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKEN WORD:
HERMENEUTICS, AESTHETICS, AND LITERATURE
Introduction
JOHN STEWART 149
Chapter 10 Two of Buber's Contributions to Contemporary
Human Science: Text as Spokenness and
Validity as Resonance
JOHN STEWART 155
Chapter 11 Martin Buber's Dialogical Biblical Hermeneutics
STEVEN KEPNES 173
Chapter 12 Dialogue in Public: Looking Critically at
the Buber-Rogers Dialogue
KENNETH N. CISSNA AND ROB ANDERSON 191
Chapter 13 Deception and the Relational: Martin Buber and
Sisela Bok-Against the Generation of the Lie
VIRGINIA SHABATAY 207
Chapter 14 The Interhuman Dimension of Teaching:
Some Ethical Aspects
ASLAUG KRISTIANSEN 215
Chapter 15 Martin Buber's Concept of Art as Dialogue
GOUTAM BISWAS 223 CONTENTS VII
Chapter 16 Martin Buber and King Lear
PAT BONI 237
PART IV ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND HISTORY
Introduction
LAWRENCE BARON 249
Chapter 17 Buber's Way Toward Sustainable Communitarian
Socialism: Essential Relationship Between the
Political and Bio-Economy
ROBERT c. HOOVER 253
Chapter 18 The Relevance of Martin Buber's Philosophical
Anthropology for Economic Thought
MARKA. LUlZ 267
Chapter 19 Martin Buber's Impact on Political Dialogue in Israel
MICHAEL KEREN 283
Chapter 20 Martin Buber and the Shoah
JERRY D. LAWRITSON 295
PART V DIALOGICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY AND CONTEXTUAL
(INTER GENERATIONAL FAMILY) THERAPY
Introduction
VIRGINIA SHABATAY 313
Chapter 21 Whatis--Psychotherapy?
JAMES V. DELEO 317
Chapter 22 Philosophy of Dialogue and Feminist Psychology
ROSE GRAF-TAYLOR 327
Chapter 23 Problems of Confirmation in Psychotherapy
TAMAR KRON AND MAURICE FRIEDMAN 335
Chapter 24 The Wisdom of Resistance:
A Dialogical Psychotherapy Approach
RICH HYCNER 347
Chapter 25 Reflections on the Buber-Rogers Dialogue:
Thirty-Five Years After
MAURICE FRIEDMAN 357 Vlll CONTENTS
Chapter 26 Relational Ethics in Contextual Therapy:
Commitment to Our Common Future
IVAN BOSZORMENYI-NAGY 371
Chapter 27 Ethical Imagination: Repairing the Breach
BARBARA R. KRASNER AND AUSTIN J. JOYCE 383
List of Contributors 399
Index 403 Preface
Martin Buber (1878-1965) was one of the truly universal figures of the
twentieth century. He was a great philosopher, a consummate writer, a
world-famous scholar and translator of the Hebrew Bible (the "Old
Testament") into German, and interpreter and literary recreator of
Hasidism-the popular Jewish mysticism that he almost single-hand­
edly made part of the heritage of the Western world. He was one of the
most learned men of his time, a universal scholar with an amazing com­
mand of languages and disciplines of knowledge. He was a genius with
an inexhaustible store of creativity that produced a treasury of books,
essays, poems, stories, a novel, and a play. His poetical philosophical
classic I and Thou is universally recognized as one of the most influen­
tial books of the twentieth century. His biblical interpretation includes
The Kingship of Godj Mosesj The Prophetic Faith j and Two Types of
Faith (Jesus and Paul). His interpretations of Hasidism include his
Hasidic chronicle-novel For the Sake of Heavenj Tales of the Hasidim
(Early Masters and Later Masters); Hasidism and Modern Manj and The
Origin and Meaning of Hasidism. His philosophical anthropology is
expounded in Between Man and Manj The Knowledge of Manj and
Good and Evil. But above all he was, as Hermann Hesse wrote of him in
nominating him for a Nobel Prize in Literature, one of the few truly
wise men alive in the world in his day. His famous philosophy of dia­
logue, or the "I-Thou relationship," has had a revolutionary impact on
Jewish and Christian theology and religious thought in our time, and it
has an ever-growing influence on the fields of aesthetics, psychology and
psychotherapy, education, speech communication, sociology, and social
thought. Martin Buber was a pioneer in the religious and communal
socialism that underlay many of the kibbutzim in Israel (Paths in
IX x PREFACE
Utopia), and he was the best-known spokesman for Jewish-Arab rap­
prochement both before and after the creation of the state of Israel (A
Land of Two Peoples).
Martin Buber and the Human Sciences grows out of an Inter­
national Interdisciplinary Conference on Martin Buber's impact on the
Human Sciences that was held at San Diego State University, 21-23
October 1991. With myself as director and a distinguished international
sponsoring committee and a local working committee made up of
myself and Professor Lawrence Baron, Dr. Seymour Cain, and Laurel
Mannen, this conference was four years in the making. Despite very
sparse funding indeed, the conference was a signal event, with papers
given by scholars from seven countries and from many fields.
The specific focus of this conference was "dialogue" as the founda­
tion of and integrating factor in "the human sciences." We are using dia­
logue in the special sense which Buber made famous in his philosophy
of dialogue: mutuality, presentness, openness, meeting the other in his
or her uniqueness and not just as a content of my experience or of my
thought categories, and knowledge as deriving in the first instance from
dialogical knowing-mutual contact-rather than the knowledge of a
subject about an object. By the "human sciences" we mean not a spe­
cific content or field, such as the humanities, but material that can be
meaningfully approached in the phenomenological and dialogical way
that has come to be associated with the term, hence, the humanities,
communication, anthropology, history, education, psychology, speech
sociology, and even, in some cases, economics.
Martin Buber and the Human Sciences is, with three exceptions, a
selection from the wealth of papers presented at this conference. It was
not possible to use the papers in their fullness. For the most part they
had to be cut down to a maximum of twenty manuscript pages. Nor was
it in any way possible to include in this volume all of the papers pre­
sented at this conference. Instead, our editorial committee spent two
years going over all the papers, in some cases excluding papers because
of their quality, in some asking that they be rewritten, in many cases
asking for cuts, and in a number of happy instances, accepting the
papers just as they were in content, style, and length. I