
- 410 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and evaluates the contribution of Martin Buber as a theorist of myth. Buber provides explicit guidelines for understanding and evaluating myths. He describes reality as twofold: people live either in a world of things, to which they relate as a subject controlling its objects, or in a world of self-conscious others, with whom one relates as fellow subjects. Human beings require both types of reality, but also a means of moving from one to the other. Buber understands myths as one such means by which people pass from I-It reality to I-You meeting. In studying myths, he focuses on the myths in the traditions he knows best, but offers his advice and interpretation of mythology and scholarship about mythology generally.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1 The Student of Myth
- Chapter 2 Buber’s View of Myth
- Chapter 3 Buber and the Bible
- Chapter 4 The Meaning of Eden
- Chapter 5 The Exodus
- Chapter 6 Buber And Hasidic Myth
- Chapter 7 Myth as Language
- Chapter 8 Hasidism And Modernity
- Chapter 9 Evaluating Buber
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX