Meir Dialogical Thought and Identity

Trans-Different Religiosity in Present Day Societies
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-033847-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

In discussion with Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Franz Fischer and Emmanuel Levinas, Ephraim Meir outlines a novel conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought. He focuses on the shaping of identity in present day societies and offers a new view on identity around the concepts of self-transcendence, self-difference, and trans-difference. Subjectivity is seen as the concrete possibility of relating to an open identity, which receives and hosts alterity. Self-difference is the crown upon the I; it is the result of a dialogical life, a life of passing to the other. The religious I is perceived as in dialogue with secularity, with its own past and with other persons. It is suggested that with a dialogical approach one may discover what unites people in pluralist societies.

Zielgruppe

Academics in the fields of philosophy (especially dialogical phil

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meir, Ephraim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Introduction;13
3;Chapter 1;16
3.1;Elucidating Identity and Alterity;16
3.2;Views on Identity;16
3.3;Identity: A Fictitious Story?;22
3.4;“Othering” as Openness of the I;24
3.5;Self-Creation or Created Self?;24
3.6;The Two Sides of the Self;26
3.7;A Forgotten Horizon;28
4;The Problem of Identity in Dialogical Philosophy;33
5;Chapter 2;35
5.1;“I-you” and “Eternal You” in the Thought of Martin Buber;35
5.2;I and Ego, Person and Self-Being;35
5.3;I-you and I-it;37
5.4;Passage From I-you To I-it;38
5.5;Hesitation;40
5.6;Inter-Subjectivity and Presence, Will and Grace;43
5.7;The Eternal You;44
5.8;Revelation and Religions;46
5.9;What is Man?;51
5.10;Judaism and Zionism: Dialogical Realities;54
5.11;Zionism as Utopia;56
5.12;Judaism and Christianity;57
6;Chapter 3;60
6.1;Franz Rosenzweig’s Animated I or “Soul”;60
6.2;The Centrality of Relationships;61
6.3;Individual and Collective Identities;61
6.4;Inclusive Thinking: Judaism and Christianity;63
6.5;The Question of Truth;65
6.6;Gritli and Franz: An Example of Dialogical Life;66
6.7;The Tragic I;68
6.8;The Transformation of the Tragic Self into a Beloved and Loving I;70
6.9;Speech and Human and Divine Love;71
6.10;Death, Love and Light;73
6.11;Between Self and Soul;74
6.12;The Other in the Self, Identity Surprised by Exteriority and Alterity;76
6.13;Turning to the World: The Process of Redemption;78
6.14;The I Beyond Itself in the “We” and “Trans-Difference”;79
6.15;The New Law as Linking Communities;79
6.16;Rosenzweig’s Lehrhaus as Dialogical Enterprise;81
6.17;The “New” Law and the Lehrhaus;88
6.18;The House of Study and Speech Thinking;90
6.19;Translating as an Act of Peace;91
6.20;Self, “Self-Transcendence” and “Trans-Difference”;95
7;Chapter 4;97
7.1;The I as “Homo Sympatheticus” in Abraham Joshua Heschel;97
7.2;The I as Concern for the Non-I;98
7.3;The I and the Ineffable;98
7.4;The Prophetic I;100
7.5;Heschel’s Own I;101
7.6;The Sympathetic I;102
7.7;The “Mystery of the Self”: On the Conversion of Needs;103
7.8;The Compassionate I, Judaism and the World;105
7.9;Human Dignity;106
8;Chapter 5;110
8.1;Franz Fischer’s “Proflective” Thought on the I;110
8.2;Selfless Existence;111
8.3;Proflective Philosophy;112
8.4;Proligion Instead of Religion;114
8.5;Xenology;115
8.6;Fischer and Buber on the Other;116
8.7;Specificity of the Self versus Selflessness;116
8.8;Christianity as Hospitality;117
9;Chapter 6;118
9.1;Emmanuel Levinas’s “One-For-the-Other”;118
9.2;The I as Agent or as Called;119
9.3;Buber and Levinas;121
9.4;Self-Transcendence in Fecundity;122
9.5;Death and Time;123
9.6;Rosenzweig and Levinas;125
9.7;Society and Ethics;126
9.8;Limitless Freedom and Difficult Freedom;127
9.9;Reason and Pre-Conceptual Demands;128
9.10;Goodness Beyond Systems;128
9.11;Rights of the Other Man and Rights of Man;129
9.12;Heschel and Levinas;130
9.13;Judaism as Category of Being;131
9.14;Hebrew Identity as Fraternity;132
9.15;Jewish Education and Anti-Humanism;133
9.16;Jewish Suffering and Jewish Anti-Totalitarianism;134
9.17;Talmud Torah;136
9.18;Judaism and Rationality, Recognition and Cognition;138
9.19;Building Blocks;140
10;Self-Transcendence, Self-Difference, and Trans-Difference. Philosophical and Theological Considerations;143
11;Chapter 7;145
11.1;The Non-Identical I;145
11.2;Radical Difference;147
11.3;Trans-Difference;149
11.4;Avoiding Extreme Assimilation and Extreme Dissimilation;149
11.5;Different Kinds of Trans-Difference;150
11.6;The Case of the Convert;152
11.7;Transcending the Self;154
11.8;The Ethical Dimension of the Self;156
11.9;To Do the Good for its own Sake or not for its own Sake;158
11.10;Nomadic Existence in Self-Difference;160
11.11;Either Post-Difference or “Inbetweenness”;163
11.12;The Theater of Identity;164
11.13;Judaism Otherwise;165
11.14;Jewish Particularity;168
11.15;Converted Thoughts;171
11.16;Conversion and Conversation;173
11.17;Religious Identity, the Past and the Future, the Same and the Other;174
11.18;Other-Oriented and World-Oriented Religion;175
11.19;Religious Pluralism;177
11.20;The Dialogical Self and Intercultural Communication;179
11.21;Beyond Relativism and Absolutism;182
11.22;Dialogue Beyond Identity;183
11.23;The Challenge of Meta-Identical Religiosity for Conflict Resolution;186
11.24;Religious Violence;189
11.25;Self-Narrative and Narrative of the Other;190
11.26;Reflection, Turning and the Search for the Deeper Self;193
12;Chapter 8;195
12.1;The Interpreted and Interpreting I;195
12.2;The Idea of Election or the I as Interpreted by the Other;196
12.3;The I in Travail with the Other;197
12.4;Loving the Other;200
12.5;Global Consciousness versus Universal Consciousness;201
12.6;Jewish Alterity and Larger Society: Dissimilation in Assimilation;203
12.7;Jews, “jews” and the Law;205
12.8;Lessing and Beyond, Unity and Diversity;206
12.9;Dialogical Hermeneutics;212
12.10;The New Dialogue Between Secularism and Religion;218
12.11;Reinterpreting Traditional Religious Concepts;220
12.12;Interaction Between Religion and Secular Modernity;223
12.13;Combining Libraries versus the All-Encompassing Library of Babel;224
12.14;One Voice and a Multitude of Books;227
12.15;Combining Cultures and Sharing God’s Care for the Human Being;230
12.16;Love God With All Your Heart;233
12.17;Interpreting With the Other in Mind;234
13;Bibliography;236
14;Index of Names;243

Über Autor(innen)

Ephraim Meir, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.