Dialogical Thought and Identity: Trans-Different Religiosity in Present Day Societies

Ephraim Meir

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Dialogical Thought and Identity

Trans-Different Religiosity in Present Day Societies

Ephraim Meir

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338478

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Co-publication with Magnes Press

In discussion with Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Franz Fischer and Emmanuel Levinas, Ephraim Meir outlines a novel conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought. He focuses on the shaping of identity in present day societies and offers a new view on identity around the concepts of self-transcendence, self-difference, and trans-difference. Subjectivity is seen as the concrete possibility of relating to an open identity, which receives and hosts alterity. Self-difference is the crown upon the I; it is the result of a dialogical life, a life of passing to the other. The religious I is perceived as in dialogue with secularity, with its own past and with other persons. It is suggested that with a dialogical approach one may discover what unites people in pluralist societies.

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Ephraim Meir, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1: Elucidating Identity and Alterity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
The Problem of Identity in Dialogical Philosophy
Chapter 2: “I-you” and “Eternal You” in the Thought of Martin Buber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 3: Franz Rosenzweig’s Animated I or “Soul” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter 4: The I as “Homo Sympatheticus” in Abraham Joshua Heschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 5: Franz Fischer’s “Proflective” Thought on the I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Chapter 6: Emmanuel Levinas’s “One-For-the-Other” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Self-Transcendence, Self-Difference, and Trans-Difference. Philosophical and Theological Considerations
Chapter 7: The Non-Identical I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 8: The Interpreted and Interpreting I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics in the fields of philosophy (especially dialogical philosophy), Jewish thought, religion and the modern world.
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 234
Keywords: Dialogisches Prinzip; Moderne; Buber, Martin; Rosenzweig, Franz; Levinas, Emanuel

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Published: November 27, 2013
ISBN: 9783110338478

Hardcover

Published: November 15, 2013
ISBN: 9783110338317