Martin Buber's Journey to Presence / / Phil Huston.

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• VerfasserIn: Huston, Phil,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Abrahamic Dialogues
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

What does Martin Buber mean, in I and Thou, by the claim that the one thing that matters is full acceptance of presence? An attempt to answer this question led the author on a journey of exploration through Buber's early writings, to reach a clarification of Buber's predialogical concept of God. She examines Buber's first major philosophical work: Daniel: Dialogues in Realization, drawing attention to inaccuracies in the available English translation. Buber's desire for presence, she finds, began with an overwhelming experience of absence. His search is for a presence that will not let him down, that will not be a "mis-encounter"--that is, for a presence that will ensure that there is meaning. This book will be an invaluable text for the student looking for a readable guide to Buber's early writings. It will help readers to understand the rich depth and many layers of thought in Buber's masterpiece, I and Thou, and to appreciate the radical change that took place in Buber's concept of God prior to its publication in 1923.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Childhood -- 2 The Becoming God -- 3 The One Thing Needful -- 4 Realization -- 5 The Presence of God -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index