Martin Buber on Myth : An Introduction Hardback
by S. Daniel Breslauer
Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Myth series
Hardback
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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.
In studying myths, he focuses on the myths in the traditions he knows best, but offers his advice and interpretation of mythology and scholarship about mythology generally.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:410 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/03/2015
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- ISBN:9781138840607
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:410 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/03/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138840607
