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The Heidegger-Buber Controversy The Status of the I-Thou
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Haim Gordon
ISBN: 0-313-30917-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30917-5
192 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2001
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The I-Thou controversy between these two thinkers is a significant but often overlooked issue in philosophy and theology. In one of the first books to truly address the subject, Haim Gordon explores the arguments of both Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber regarding the The I-Thou relationship and its significance for human existence. Gordon's work illuminates Heidegger's complex and enlightening ontology--one that describes the everyday life of the human in such a way that there is no place for the I-Thou relationship. Buber, on the other hand, argues for the significance of the I-Thou relationship within human existence, and highlights the ways in which Heidegger's philosophy fails to grasp this important point. After examining the fundamental ontology of Heidegger, set beside the ontological insights of Buber concerning this relationship, Gordon concludes that each of these important twentieth-century philosophers was guilty of ignoring the contributions made by the other to the study of ontology and being.

By exploring the complicated dynamic between Heidegger and Buber, Gordon presents the reader with valuable insights and a deeper understanding of human existence and relationships. The implications of both this controversy and its resolution are far reaching for many other philosophical disciplines, including social and political philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology of Dasein
    Being and Time
    Dasein and the World
    Dasein's Being-In, Care, and Truth
    Dasein and Temporality
    Heidegger's Rejection of the I-Thou
    Phenomenology and Dasein
    Heidegger's First Critique of the I-Thou
    Heidegger's Study of Kant
    Metaphysics and Logic
    Buber's I-Thou
    I and Thou
    First Presentation of the I-Thou
    Living the I-Thou
    Beyond I and Thou
    The I-Thou and Dialogue
    Buber's Critique of Heidegger
    Conclusion and Some Implications
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: HAIM GORDON is full professor in the Department of Education at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely in the fields of philosophy and education. Among his recent books are Dictionary of Existentialism (1999), Looking Back at the June 1967 War (1999), and Fighting Evil: Unsung Heroes in the Novels of Graham Greene (1997).
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