Table of Contents

Preface Executive Editor's Note on Abbreviations Part I. Introduction 1. Martin Buber's "Narrow Ridge" and the Human Sciences Maurice Friedman Part II. Philosophy and Religion Introduction Seymour Cain and Maurice Friedman 2. To Be is to Be Relational: Martin Buber and John Dewey Arthur S. Lothstein 3. Is a Dialogical Theology Possible? Manfred Vogel 4. Into Life: The Legacy of Jewish Tradition in Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue S. Daniel Breslauer 5. Martin Buber's Biblical and Jewish Ethics Richard A. Freund 6. Martin Buber and Christian Theology: A Continuing Dialogue Donald J. Moore, S.J. 7. Buber, the Via Negativa, and Zen G. Ray Jordan, Jr. 8. I and Tao: Buber's Chuang Tzu and the Comparative Study of Mysticism Jonathan R. Herman 9. Dialogue and Difference: "I and Thou" or "We and They"? Seymour Cain Part III. The Written and the Spoken Word: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, and Literature Introduction John Stewart 10. Two of Buber's Contributions to Contemporary Human Science: Text as Spokenness and Validity as Resonance John Stewart 11. Martin Buber's Dialogical Biblical Hermeneutics Steven Kepnes 12. Dialogue in Public: Looking Critically at the Buber-Rogers Dialogue Kenneth N. Cissna and Rob Anderson 13. Deception and the Relational: Martin Buber and Sisela Bok--Against the Generation of the Lie Virginia Shabatay 14. The Interhuman Dimension of Teaching: Some Ethical Aspects Aslaug Kristiansen 15. Martin Buber's Concept of Art as Dialogue Goutam Biswas 16. Martin Buber and King Lear Pat Boni Part IV. Economics, Politics, and History Introduction Lawrence Baron 17. Buber's Way Toward Sustainable Communitarian Socialism: Essential Relationship Between the Political and Bio-Economy Robert C. Hoover 18. The Relevance of Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology for Economic Thought Mark A. Lutz 19. Martin Buber's Impact on Political Dialogue in Israel Michael Keren 20. Martin Buber and the Shoah Jerry D. Lawritson Part V. Dialogical Psychotherapy and Contextual (Intergenerational Family) Therapy Introduction Virginia Shabatay 21. What is--Psychotherapy? James V. Deleo 22. Philosophy of Dialogue and Feminist Psychology Rose Graf-Taylor 23. Problems of Confirmation in Psychotherapy Tamar Kron and Maurice Friedman 24. The Wisdom of Resistance: A Dialogical Psychotherapy Approach Rich Hycner 25. Reflections on the Buber-Rogers Dialogue: Thirty-Five Years After Maurice Friedman 26. Relational Ethics in Contextual Therapy:Commitment to Our Common Future Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy 27. Ethical Imagination: Repairing the Breach Barbara R. Krasner and Austin J. Joyce List of Contributors Index

About the Author

Maurice Friedman is the world's foremost authority on Martin Buber. His three volume critical biography, Martin Buber's Life and Work was the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award in 1995. In addition, he is the author of three other books on Buber, editor, translator, and introducer of a dozen of Buber's works, and principal editor of The Philosophy of Martin Buber volume of The Library of Living Philosophers. He is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University and Co-Director of the Institute for Dialogical Psychotherapy.

Reviews

"This book is timely/past due for a current follow up source to identify the influences of this major twentieth-century thinker on his successors. I found the book hard to put down-despite coming across my desk at a busy end of term. Clearly Buber's influence has been acknowledged within individual academic disciplines, clearly as a seminal thinker his influence should be widespread in principle. A current and accessible single volume such as this that demonstrates the breadth of his impact is most welcome and valuable. I have been looking for a work of this sort for some time. I was delighted at the fresh breath presented by so many of the authors." - Elliott M. Levine, University of Winnipeg "The papers included in this volume attest to the very wide range of human concerns for which the work of Martin Buber continues to have seminal importance and provocative implications. What is most interesting is the extraordinary range of topics addressed in the collection, under the rubric of 'the human sciences.' The elucidation of that term is itself an important contribution, and Friedman's discussion/explanation of the term in his essay is essential." - Donald L. Berry, Colgate University