Companion to Martin Buber

Paul Mendes-Flohr was professor emeritus of modern Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and professor emeritus of Jewish intellectual history at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of many books, including A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Prologue: Martin Buber: Philosopher of DialoguePaul Mendes-FlohrPart 1: Philosophy of DialogueIntroductionPaul Mendes-Flohr1 Exodus from Monological ModernityChristoph Schmidt2 Martin Buber and Philosophical AnthropologyAsher Biemann3 “The Between”: Martin Buber’s Transformation of ConsciousnessMichael Fishbane4 Imaging the Imageless, Making Present, and Coming to Light of the Other: Imagination and Buber’s Dialogical ThinkingElliot R. Wolfson5 To Hallow the EverydayPaul Mendes-Flohr6 Martin Buber’s Ethics of PerceptionSarah ScottPart 2: Language and HermeneuticsIntroductionPaul Mendes-Flohr7 Buber and LanguageJoachim Oberst8 Martin Buber and the Philosophy of CommunicationJohan Siebers9 Buber and ExpressionismBernhard Lang10 Buber’s Hermeneutical Biblical TheologySteven Kepnes11 Buber’s Relational Ontology and Dialogical ListeningClaudia WelzPart 3: Psychology and EducationIntroductionPaul Mendes-Flohr12 Buber’s Concept of the SoulCornelia Muth13 Buber on SolitudeMichal Bizoň14 Buber on Psychotherapy and PsychoanalysisHenry Abramovitch15 Martin Buber: Education toward HumanismAslaug KristiansenPart 4: Interfaith DialogueIntroductionPaul Mendes-Flohr16 Buber and ChristianityKarl-Josef Kuschel17 Martin Buber and Eastern WisdomHune Margulies18 Buber Meeting and Not-Meeting IslamKhaled FuraniPart 5: JudaismIntroductionPaul Mendes-Flohr19 Martin Buber on Israel’s Divine ElectionManuel Duarte de Oliveira20 Buber and HasidismSam S. B. Shonkoff21 Buber and the HolocaustDavid BarzilaiPart 6: PoliticsIntroductionPaul Mendes-Flohr22 Buber’s Concept of TheopoliticsSamuel Hayim Brody23 Buber’s Concept of Gemeinschaft (Community)Inka Sauter24 The Ethical View of the Palestinian OtherAmal Jamal25 Feminism and Buber’s Legacy: A Critical ReceptionYemima HadadPart 7: ReceptionIntroductionPaul Mendes-Flohr26 Buber in France: From Gaston Bachelard to Emmanuel LevinasDominique Bourel27 Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue: A Japanese PerspectiveFumio OnoGlossaryList of ContributorsIndex

“Thanks to Mendes-Flohr we have in this Companion a remarkable collection of scholarly essays from all around the world on Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, anthropology of community, struggle for peace, and renewal of Jewish spirituality. A precious contribution to the reception of one of the most creative Jewish thinkers of the past century.”