1st Edition

Immediacy and its Limits (Routledge Revivals) A Study in Martin Buber's Thought

Edited By Nathan Rotenstreich Copyright 1991
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on a major problem in the philosophy of Martin Buber. This is the topic of immediacy which is presented in terms of the contact between human beings on the one hand, and man and God on the other. The basic theme throughout is whether the I-Thou relation refers to immediate contact between human beings, as Buber saw it, or whether that relation is... Read more
1. Introduction: Humaneness as Fulfilment  2. Background  3. Existence and its basis  4. Trends and Topics  5. The Fellow and the Other  6. Horizon and its Hold  7. Ontology  8. The Encounter  9. Immediacy of Mediation  10. Faith and Reciprocity  11. Religion versus Philosophy  12. Reconsideration

Biography

Nathan Rotenstreich