Ebook: Martin Buber on myth: an introduction

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; Table of Contents; PREFACE; Chapter 1 The Student of Myth; MARTIN BUBER: THE HONORARY STUDENT; BUBER AS STUDENT OF REALITY; DEVELOPING I-THOU PHILOSOPHY; BUBER AS STUDENT AND TEACHER; BUBER AND JUDAISM; BUBER AND THE HEBREW BIBLE; BUBER AND JEWISH RELIGION; BUBER AS A STUDENT OF MYTH; BUBER AND HIS CRITICS; MARTIN BUBER'S LEGACY; NOTES; Chapter 2 Buber on Myth; PROBLEMS IN BUBER'S APPROACH; TESTING BUBER'S DEFINITION; MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP; THE ENOCH TRADITIONS.;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.