Books written by Paul Mendes-Flohr
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Martin Buber
41 Given this history, Carl Buber may well have supported his son's decision to pursue a university education so that Martin might achieve what Carl had been denied. Knowing that Martin had two children out of wedlock with a non-Jewish ...
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Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities
In Cultural Disjunctions, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores the possibility of a spiritually and intellectually engaged cosmopolitan Jewish identity for our time.
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Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept: Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue and its Contemporary Reception
This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber’s principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena.
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Martin Buber: A Contemporary Perspective
Represents a critical evaluation of Martin Buber's work and its diverse aspects of modern thought and culture.
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Gustav Landauer: Anarchist and Jew
This volume brings together leading scholars to assess Landauer’s ramified literary and political activities, his life as a Jew and anarchist, paying particular attention to his impact on Martin Buber.
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Gershom Scholem: The Man and His Work
... Hasidim contained more fruitful and original ideas than those of their rationalistic opponents , the Maskilim , and that the reborn Hebrew culture could find much of value in the heritage of Hasidism . Even so restrained a critic as ...
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Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums
Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural ...
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Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums
Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural ...
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20th Century Jewish Religious Thought
With entries from Aesthetics to Zionism, this book provides striking insights into both the Jewish experience and the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
The book is organized around several key moments, such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three, a foundational trauma that, Mendes-Flohr shows, left an enduring mark on Buber’s inner life, attuning him to the ...