Immediacy and its Limits
Subtitle: a Study in Martin Buber's Thought
Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge revivals
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780203858240
Description: 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 something established or aspired to. This is an important study which should be consulted in any future discussion of Martin Buber's thought. At the same time, it raises critical issues for recent Europe.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Author's Note; Bibliographical Note; Chapter One: Introduction: Humaneness as Fulfilment; Chapter Two: Background; Chapter Three: Existence and Its Basis; Chapter Four: Trends and Topics; Chapter Five: The Fellow and the Other; Chapter Six: Horizon and its Hold; Chapter Seven: Ontology; Chapter Eight: The Encounter; Chapter Nine: Immediacy or Mediation?; Chapter Ten: Faith and Reciprocity; Chapter Eleven: Religion versus Philosophy; Chapter Twelve: Reconsideration; Index.