Martin Buber and the Human Sciences

Maurice Friedman is the world's foremost authority on Martin Buber. His three volume critical biography, Martin Buber's Life and Work was the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award in 1995. In addition, he is the author of three other books on Buber, editor, translator, and introducer of a dozen of Buber's works, and principal editor of The Philosophy of Martin Buber volume of The Library of Living Philosophers. He is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University and Co-Director of the Institute for Dialogical Psychotherapy.

• Preface Executive Editor's Note on Abbreviations Part I. Introduction 1. Martin Buber's "Narrow Ridge" and the Human SciencesMaurice Friedman Part II. Philosophy and Religion IntroductionSeymour Cain and Maurice Friedman 2. To Be is to Be Relational: Martin Buber and John DeweyArthur S. Lothstein 3. Is a Dialogical Theology Possible?Manfred Vogel 4. Into Life: The Legacy of Jewish Tradition in Buber's Philosophy of DialogueS. Daniel Breslauer 5. Martin Buber's Biblical and Jewish EthicsRichard A. Freund 6. Martin Buber and Christian Theology: A Continuing DialogueDonald J. Moore, S.J. 7. Buber, the Via Negativa, and ZenG. Ray Jordan, Jr. 8. I and Tao: Buber's Chuang Tzu and the Comparative Study of MysticismJonathan 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 IntroductionJohn Stewart 10. Two of Buber's Contributions to Contemporary Human Science: Text as Spokenness and Validity as ResonanceJohn Stewart 11. Martin Buber's Dialogical Biblical HermeneuticsSteven Kepnes 12. Dialogue in Public: Looking Critically at the Buber-Rogers DialogueKenneth N. Cissna and Rob Anderson 13. Deception and the Relational: Martin Buber and Sisela Bok—Against the Generation of the LieVirginia Shabatay 14. The Interhuman Dimension of Teaching: Some Ethical AspectsAslaug Kristiansen 15. Martin Buber's Concept of Art as DialogueGoutam Biswas 16. Martin Buber and King LearPat Boni Part IV. Economics, Politics, and History IntroductionLawrence Baron 17. Buber's Way Toward Sustainable Communitarian Socialism: Essential Relationship Between the Political and Bio-EconomyRobert C. Hoover 18. The Relevance of Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology for Economic ThoughtMark A. Lutz 19. Martin Buber's Impact on Political Dialogue in IsraelMichael Keren 20. Martin Buber and the ShoahJerry D. Lawritson Part V. Dialogical Psychotherapy and Contextual (Intergenerational Family) Therapy IntroductionVirginia Shabatay 21. What is—Psychotherapy?James V. Deleo 22. Philosophy of Dialogue and Feminist PsychologyRose Graf-Taylor 23. Problems of Confirmation in PsychotherapyTamar Kron and Maurice Friedman 24. The Wisdom of Resistance: A Dialogical Psychotherapy ApproachRich Hycner 25. Reflections on the Buber-Rogers Dialogue: Thirty-Five Years AfterMaurice Friedman 26. Relational Ethics in Contextual Therapy:Commitment to Our Common FutureIvan Boszormenyi-Nagy 27. Ethical Imagination: Repairing the BreachBarbara R. Krasner and Austin J. Joyce List of Contributors Index

"This book is timely/past due for a current follow up source to identify the influences of this major twentieth-century thinker on his successors. I found the book hard to put down—despite coming across my desk at a busy end of term. Clearly Buber's influence has been acknowledged within individual academic disciplines, clearly as a seminal thinker his influence should be widespread in principle. A current and accessible single volume such as this that demonstrates the breadth of his impact is most welcome and valuable.I have been looking for a work of this sort for some time. I was delighted at the fresh breath presented by so many of the authors." — Elliott M. Levine, University of Winnipeg"The papers included in this volume attest to the very wide range of human concerns for which the work of Martin Buber continues to have seminal importance and provocative implications. What is most interesting is the extraordinary range of topics addressed in the collection, under the rubric of 'the human sciences.' The elucidation of that term is itself an important contribution, and Friedman's discussion/explanation of the term in his essay is essential." — Donald L. Berry, Colgate University