- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; 1st edition (27 Mar 1975)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140215301
- ISBN-13: 978-0140215304
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 883,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hodes and Buber- I and thou- with a bit too much of the 'I'
11 Sep 2006
Format:Hardcover
This book starts well, relating the young Hodes first encounters with Martin Buber. In these chapters we learn much about Buber's philosophy of dialogue, and meeting. Hodes describes Buber as being open , receptive, spontaneous and totally with the person he is speaking with. Hodes goes on to briefly outline the major steps in Buber's path in thought, including his breaking away from formal observance( at the age of fourteen) his education in philosophy at German universities, his encounter with Herzl and adoption of cultural Zionism, his meeting with the Hasidim of Galicia and his becoming the 'revealer' of Hasidism to the wider world, his struggles against Nazi Germany and for the Jewish community, his years in Israel as world- sage less than fully honored at home.
Somewhere in the book it becomes too political and also involves a bit too much of Hodes, his views and story. Buber is presented as a wiseman who understood the Israeli- Arab conflict, and thought that peace could be brought by people making peace within themselves. In other words Hodes presents as ' wise and right' views of Buber which not only were in opposition to the common sense of Israelis at their time, but which many can argue now were naive and damaging. One central criticism of Buber after all is that the entire post- Zionist movement has its roots in his thought.
Still there is much to be learned and taken pleasure in in this book, especially in those conversations in which Buber speaks to Hodes about his own thought.
Somewhere in the book it becomes too political and also involves a bit too much of Hodes, his views and story. Buber is presented as a wiseman who understood the Israeli- Arab conflict, and thought that peace could be brought by people making peace within themselves. In other words Hodes presents as ' wise and right' views of Buber which not only were in opposition to the common sense of Israelis at their time, but which many can argue now were naive and damaging. One central criticism of Buber after all is that the entire post- Zionist movement has its roots in his thought.
Still there is much to be learned and taken pleasure in in this book, especially in those conversations in which Buber speaks to Hodes about his own thought.
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