The Hard and the Soft
Politics has never been considered Martin Buber’s forte. This paper considers the range of Buber’s reception as a political thinker by considering it in the form of three “moments,” each from a different point in his career, and each through the eyes of a different figure who either read or worked w...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-94 |
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Anarchism
Martin Buber
political theory
reception history
Zionism
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Summary: | Politics has never been considered Martin Buber’s forte. This paper considers the range of Buber’s reception as a political thinker by considering it in the form of three “moments,” each from a different point in his career, and each through the eyes of a different figure who either read or worked with Buber politically: Theodor Herzl, Gustav Landauer, and Hans Kohn. The three moments are structured around a discussion of the classic criticism that Buber’s politics are naïve or utopian; the paper seeks to respond, as Buber did, in a way that raises questions about the borders of politics itself. |
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ISSN: | 1477-285X |
Contains: | In: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1477285X-12341278 |