Martin Buber on Myth (RLE Myth): An Introduction (Routledge Library Editions: Myth) - Hardcover

Breslauer, S. Daniel

 
9781138840607: Martin Buber on Myth (RLE Myth): An Introduction (Routledge Library Editions: Myth)

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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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S. Daniel Breslauer

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