Hasidism and Modern Man

ISBN-13: 9780691165417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str.

Martin Buber; Maurice Friedman; David Biale

Opis

Hasidism, a controversial, mystical-religious movement of Eastern European origin, has posed a serious challenge to mainstream Judaism from its earliest beginnings in the middle of the eighteenth century. Decimated by the Holocaust, it has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and has reconstituted itself as a major force in the world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Philosopher Martin Buber found inspiration in its original tenets and devoted much of his career to making its insights known to a wide readership.First published in 1958, Hasidism and Modern Man examines the life and religious experiences of Hasidic Jews, as well as Buber's personal response to them. From the autobiographical "My Way to Hasidism," to "Hasidism and Modern Man," and "Love of God and Love of Neighbor," the essays span nearly half a century and reflect the evolution of Buber's religious philosophy in relation to the Hasidic movement. Hasidism and Modern Man remains prescient in its portrayal of a spiritual movement that brings God down to earth and makes possible a modern philosophy in which the human being becomes sacred.

O autorze

Martin Buber (1878-1965), Religionsforscher, Religionsphilosoph und Schriftsteller, gehört zu den führenden Persönlichkeiten des Judentums im 20. Jahrhundert und des jüdisch-christlichen Dialogs. Geboren in Wien, aufgewachsen in Lemberg, studierte er Philosophie, Germanistik, Kunstgeschichte und Psychologie in Wien, Berlin, Leipzig und Zürich. 1924-33 war er Professor für Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft in Frankfurt a.M. Buber, der sich früh dem Zionismus angeschlossen hatte, wanderte 1938 nach Palästina aus und lehrte an der Hebräischen Universität von Jerusalem Sozialphilosophie. Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg war er einer der wenigen ehemals deutschen Juden, die in der Öffentlichkeit wieder eine Brücke zu Deutschland zu schlagen versuchten.