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Will and Grace

Meditations on the dialogical philosophy of martin buber

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  1. Hune Margulies
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  • This book engages Buber from both a poetic and philosophic perspective, without being a technical and merely descriptive academic work.
  • Buber’s message, as espoused in this book, is essential during these times of crisis.
  • This book aims to contribute to a renaissance of dialogical and humanistic understandings of religion and society.

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS)

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Table of contents (70 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 1-4

  3. God is the Between of I and Thou

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 5-20

  4. On Dialogical Philosophy and Zen Buddhism

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 21-27

  5. On Zen’s Paradoxical Spirituality

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 29-34

  6. What is God? Between Texts and Mogra Trees

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 35-52

  7. On the Creation of the World

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 53-58

  8. On the Uses of the Word “God”

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 59-62

  12. On the Sense of Place and Placelessness

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 87-88

  13. On The Meaning of Namaskar

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 89-90

  16. On Relationship and Salvation

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 115-120

  17. On the Season of the Birth of the Son of Man

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 121-126

  18. On Temples and Gardens

    • Hune Margulies
    Pages 127-131
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About this book

This book is a poetic reading of the dialogical philosophy of martin buber. my reading of martin buber takes me to this principal insight: god is not in heaven nor on earth. god is not above nor below. not within and not without. not in the soul or in the flesh. god is not an entity anywhere: god is the between of an i and a thou. these pages are not an academic study in the strict sense. my meditations in this book are not a literal description of buber’s philosophy, for buber would never have approved of taking his words in any way other than in dialogue. buber wrote in-dialogue with the reader, and i read buber in the poetic philosophy of his words. in other words: we can say that the essential thinking in martin buber’s philosophy is that the presence of god in us is always enacted as the presence of god between us. god, like love, like poetry, is a deed we do. the god-deed is actualized not in rituals or temples, but in the practices of the sacraments of the neighbor. for there is nothing we can predicate of god, but we can still meet god in the embrace of the neighbor. we meet god as we meet with one another in genuine relationship. god is not in the relationship, god is the relationship. god is no-thing, but there is nothing that isn't god in the between of an i and a thou.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Will and Grace

  • Book Subtitle: Meditations on the dialogical philosophy of martin buber

  • Authors: Hune Margulies

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-197-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6351-197-1Published: 13 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CCCLII, 14

  • Topics: Education, general

  • Industry Sectors: Engineering, Pharma

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