Dialogical Thought and Identity
Trans-Different Religiosity in Present Day Societies
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2013
XII, 234 pages
978-3-11-033847-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Ephraim Meir, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Content
1 - Preface [Seite 7]
2 - Introduction [Seite 13]
3 - Chapter 1 [Seite 16]
3.1 - Elucidating Identity and Alterity [Seite 16]
3.2 - Views on Identity [Seite 16]
3.3 - Identity: A Fictitious Story? [Seite 22]
3.4 - "Othering" as Openness of the I [Seite 24]
3.5 - Self-Creation or Created Self? [Seite 24]
3.6 - The Two Sides of the Self [Seite 26]
3.7 - A Forgotten Horizon [Seite 28]
4 - The Problem of Identity in Dialogical Philosophy [Seite 33]
5 - Chapter 2 [Seite 35]
5.1 - "I-you" and "Eternal You" in the Thought of Martin Buber [Seite 35]
5.2 - I and Ego, Person and Self-Being [Seite 35]
5.3 - I-you and I-it [Seite 37]
5.4 - Passage From I-you To I-it [Seite 38]
5.5 - Hesitation [Seite 40]
5.6 - Inter-Subjectivity and Presence, Will and Grace [Seite 43]
5.7 - The Eternal You [Seite 44]
5.8 - Revelation and Religions [Seite 46]
5.9 - What is Man? [Seite 51]
5.10 - Judaism and Zionism: Dialogical Realities [Seite 54]
5.11 - Zionism as Utopia [Seite 56]
5.12 - Judaism and Christianity [Seite 57]
6 - Chapter 3 [Seite 60]
6.1 - Franz Rosenzweig's Animated I or "Soul" [Seite 60]
6.2 - The Centrality of Relationships [Seite 61]
6.3 - Individual and Collective Identities [Seite 61]
6.4 - Inclusive Thinking: Judaism and Christianity [Seite 63]
6.5 - The Question of Truth [Seite 65]
6.6 - Gritli and Franz: An Example of Dialogical Life [Seite 66]
6.7 - The Tragic I [Seite 68]
6.8 - The Transformation of the Tragic Self into a Beloved and Loving I [Seite 70]
6.9 - Speech and Human and Divine Love [Seite 71]
6.10 - Death, Love and Light [Seite 73]
6.11 - Between Self and Soul [Seite 74]
6.12 - The Other in the Self, Identity Surprised by Exteriority and Alterity [Seite 76]
6.13 - Turning to the World: The Process of Redemption [Seite 78]
6.14 - The I Beyond Itself in the "We" and "Trans-Difference" [Seite 79]
6.15 - The New Law as Linking Communities [Seite 79]
6.16 - Rosenzweig's Lehrhaus as Dialogical Enterprise [Seite 81]
6.17 - The "New" Law and the Lehrhaus [Seite 88]
6.18 - The House of Study and Speech Thinking [Seite 90]
6.19 - Translating as an Act of Peace [Seite 91]
6.20 - Self, "Self-Transcendence" and "Trans-Difference" [Seite 95]
7 - Chapter 4 [Seite 97]
7.1 - The I as "Homo Sympatheticus" in Abraham Joshua Heschel [Seite 97]
7.2 - The I as Concern for the Non-I [Seite 98]
7.3 - The I and the Ineffable [Seite 98]
7.4 - The Prophetic I [Seite 100]
7.5 - Heschel's Own I [Seite 101]
7.6 - The Sympathetic I [Seite 102]
7.7 - The "Mystery of the Self": On the Conversion of Needs [Seite 103]
7.8 - The Compassionate I, Judaism and the World [Seite 105]
7.9 - Human Dignity [Seite 106]
8 - Chapter 5 [Seite 110]
8.1 - Franz Fischer's "Proflective" Thought on the I [Seite 110]
8.2 - Selfless Existence [Seite 111]
8.3 - Proflective Philosophy [Seite 112]
8.4 - Proligion Instead of Religion [Seite 114]
8.5 - Xenology [Seite 115]
8.6 - Fischer and Buber on the Other [Seite 116]
8.7 - Specificity of the Self versus Selflessness [Seite 116]
8.8 - Christianity as Hospitality [Seite 117]
9 - Chapter 6 [Seite 118]
9.1 - Emmanuel Levinas's "One-For-the-Other" [Seite 118]
9.2 - The I as Agent or as Called [Seite 119]
9.3 - Buber and Levinas [Seite 121]
9.4 - Self-Transcendence in Fecundity [Seite 122]
9.5 - Death and Time [Seite 123]
9.6 - Rosenzweig and Levinas [Seite 125]
9.7 - Society and Ethics [Seite 126]
9.8 - Limitless Freedom and Difficult Freedom [Seite 127]
9.9 - Reason and Pre-Conceptual Demands [Seite 128]
9.10 - Goodness Beyond Systems [Seite 128]
9.11 - Rights of the Other Man and Rights of Man [Seite 129]
9.12 - Heschel and Levinas [Seite 130]
9.13 - Judaism as Category of Being [Seite 131]
9.14 - Hebrew Identity as Fraternity [Seite 132]
9.15 - Jewish Education and Anti-Humanism [Seite 133]
9.16 - Jewish Suffering and Jewish Anti-Totalitarianism [Seite 134]
9.17 - Talmud Torah [Seite 136]
9.18 - Judaism and Rationality, Recognition and Cognition [Seite 138]
9.19 - Building Blocks [Seite 140]
10 - Self-Transcendence, Self-Difference, and Trans-Difference. Philosophical and Theological Considerations [Seite 143]
11 - Chapter 7 [Seite 145]
11.1 - The Non-Identical I [Seite 145]
11.2 - Radical Difference [Seite 147]
11.3 - Trans-Difference [Seite 149]
11.4 - Avoiding Extreme Assimilation and Extreme Dissimilation [Seite 149]
11.5 - Different Kinds of Trans-Difference [Seite 150]
11.6 - The Case of the Convert [Seite 152]
11.7 - Transcending the Self [Seite 154]
11.8 - The Ethical Dimension of the Self [Seite 156]
11.9 - To Do the Good for its own Sake or not for its own Sake [Seite 158]
11.10 - Nomadic Existence in Self-Difference [Seite 160]
11.11 - Either Post-Difference or "Inbetweenness" [Seite 163]
11.12 - The Theater of Identity [Seite 164]
11.13 - Judaism Otherwise [Seite 165]
11.14 - Jewish Particularity [Seite 168]
11.15 - Converted Thoughts [Seite 171]
11.16 - Conversion and Conversation [Seite 173]
11.17 - Religious Identity, the Past and the Future, the Same and the Other [Seite 174]
11.18 - Other-Oriented and World-Oriented Religion [Seite 175]
11.19 - Religious Pluralism [Seite 177]
11.20 - The Dialogical Self and Intercultural Communication [Seite 179]
11.21 - Beyond Relativism and Absolutism [Seite 182]
11.22 - Dialogue Beyond Identity [Seite 183]
11.23 - The Challenge of Meta-Identical Religiosity for Conflict Resolution [Seite 186]
11.24 - Religious Violence [Seite 189]
11.25 - Self-Narrative and Narrative of the Other [Seite 190]
11.26 - Reflection, Turning and the Search for the Deeper Self [Seite 193]
12 - Chapter 8 [Seite 195]
12.1 - The Interpreted and Interpreting I [Seite 195]
12.2 - The Idea of Election or the I as Interpreted by the Other [Seite 196]
12.3 - The I in Travail with the Other [Seite 197]
12.4 - Loving the Other [Seite 200]
12.5 - Global Consciousness versus Universal Consciousness [Seite 201]
12.6 - Jewish Alterity and Larger Society: Dissimilation in Assimilation [Seite 203]
12.7 - Jews, "jews" and the Law [Seite 205]
12.8 - Lessing and Beyond, Unity and Diversity [Seite 206]
12.9 - Dialogical Hermeneutics [Seite 212]
12.10 - The New Dialogue Between Secularism and Religion [Seite 218]
12.11 - Reinterpreting Traditional Religious Concepts [Seite 220]
12.12 - Interaction Between Religion and Secular Modernity [Seite 223]
12.13 - Combining Libraries versus the All-Encompassing Library of Babel [Seite 224]
12.14 - One Voice and a Multitude of Books [Seite 227]
12.15 - Combining Cultures and Sharing God's Care for the Human Being [Seite 230]
12.16 - Love God With All Your Heart [Seite 233]
12.17 - Interpreting With the Other in Mind [Seite 234]
13 - Bibliography [Seite 236]
14 - Index of Names [Seite 243]
2 - Introduction [Seite 13]
3 - Chapter 1 [Seite 16]
3.1 - Elucidating Identity and Alterity [Seite 16]
3.2 - Views on Identity [Seite 16]
3.3 - Identity: A Fictitious Story? [Seite 22]
3.4 - "Othering" as Openness of the I [Seite 24]
3.5 - Self-Creation or Created Self? [Seite 24]
3.6 - The Two Sides of the Self [Seite 26]
3.7 - A Forgotten Horizon [Seite 28]
4 - The Problem of Identity in Dialogical Philosophy [Seite 33]
5 - Chapter 2 [Seite 35]
5.1 - "I-you" and "Eternal You" in the Thought of Martin Buber [Seite 35]
5.2 - I and Ego, Person and Self-Being [Seite 35]
5.3 - I-you and I-it [Seite 37]
5.4 - Passage From I-you To I-it [Seite 38]
5.5 - Hesitation [Seite 40]
5.6 - Inter-Subjectivity and Presence, Will and Grace [Seite 43]
5.7 - The Eternal You [Seite 44]
5.8 - Revelation and Religions [Seite 46]
5.9 - What is Man? [Seite 51]
5.10 - Judaism and Zionism: Dialogical Realities [Seite 54]
5.11 - Zionism as Utopia [Seite 56]
5.12 - Judaism and Christianity [Seite 57]
6 - Chapter 3 [Seite 60]
6.1 - Franz Rosenzweig's Animated I or "Soul" [Seite 60]
6.2 - The Centrality of Relationships [Seite 61]
6.3 - Individual and Collective Identities [Seite 61]
6.4 - Inclusive Thinking: Judaism and Christianity [Seite 63]
6.5 - The Question of Truth [Seite 65]
6.6 - Gritli and Franz: An Example of Dialogical Life [Seite 66]
6.7 - The Tragic I [Seite 68]
6.8 - The Transformation of the Tragic Self into a Beloved and Loving I [Seite 70]
6.9 - Speech and Human and Divine Love [Seite 71]
6.10 - Death, Love and Light [Seite 73]
6.11 - Between Self and Soul [Seite 74]
6.12 - The Other in the Self, Identity Surprised by Exteriority and Alterity [Seite 76]
6.13 - Turning to the World: The Process of Redemption [Seite 78]
6.14 - The I Beyond Itself in the "We" and "Trans-Difference" [Seite 79]
6.15 - The New Law as Linking Communities [Seite 79]
6.16 - Rosenzweig's Lehrhaus as Dialogical Enterprise [Seite 81]
6.17 - The "New" Law and the Lehrhaus [Seite 88]
6.18 - The House of Study and Speech Thinking [Seite 90]
6.19 - Translating as an Act of Peace [Seite 91]
6.20 - Self, "Self-Transcendence" and "Trans-Difference" [Seite 95]
7 - Chapter 4 [Seite 97]
7.1 - The I as "Homo Sympatheticus" in Abraham Joshua Heschel [Seite 97]
7.2 - The I as Concern for the Non-I [Seite 98]
7.3 - The I and the Ineffable [Seite 98]
7.4 - The Prophetic I [Seite 100]
7.5 - Heschel's Own I [Seite 101]
7.6 - The Sympathetic I [Seite 102]
7.7 - The "Mystery of the Self": On the Conversion of Needs [Seite 103]
7.8 - The Compassionate I, Judaism and the World [Seite 105]
7.9 - Human Dignity [Seite 106]
8 - Chapter 5 [Seite 110]
8.1 - Franz Fischer's "Proflective" Thought on the I [Seite 110]
8.2 - Selfless Existence [Seite 111]
8.3 - Proflective Philosophy [Seite 112]
8.4 - Proligion Instead of Religion [Seite 114]
8.5 - Xenology [Seite 115]
8.6 - Fischer and Buber on the Other [Seite 116]
8.7 - Specificity of the Self versus Selflessness [Seite 116]
8.8 - Christianity as Hospitality [Seite 117]
9 - Chapter 6 [Seite 118]
9.1 - Emmanuel Levinas's "One-For-the-Other" [Seite 118]
9.2 - The I as Agent or as Called [Seite 119]
9.3 - Buber and Levinas [Seite 121]
9.4 - Self-Transcendence in Fecundity [Seite 122]
9.5 - Death and Time [Seite 123]
9.6 - Rosenzweig and Levinas [Seite 125]
9.7 - Society and Ethics [Seite 126]
9.8 - Limitless Freedom and Difficult Freedom [Seite 127]
9.9 - Reason and Pre-Conceptual Demands [Seite 128]
9.10 - Goodness Beyond Systems [Seite 128]
9.11 - Rights of the Other Man and Rights of Man [Seite 129]
9.12 - Heschel and Levinas [Seite 130]
9.13 - Judaism as Category of Being [Seite 131]
9.14 - Hebrew Identity as Fraternity [Seite 132]
9.15 - Jewish Education and Anti-Humanism [Seite 133]
9.16 - Jewish Suffering and Jewish Anti-Totalitarianism [Seite 134]
9.17 - Talmud Torah [Seite 136]
9.18 - Judaism and Rationality, Recognition and Cognition [Seite 138]
9.19 - Building Blocks [Seite 140]
10 - Self-Transcendence, Self-Difference, and Trans-Difference. Philosophical and Theological Considerations [Seite 143]
11 - Chapter 7 [Seite 145]
11.1 - The Non-Identical I [Seite 145]
11.2 - Radical Difference [Seite 147]
11.3 - Trans-Difference [Seite 149]
11.4 - Avoiding Extreme Assimilation and Extreme Dissimilation [Seite 149]
11.5 - Different Kinds of Trans-Difference [Seite 150]
11.6 - The Case of the Convert [Seite 152]
11.7 - Transcending the Self [Seite 154]
11.8 - The Ethical Dimension of the Self [Seite 156]
11.9 - To Do the Good for its own Sake or not for its own Sake [Seite 158]
11.10 - Nomadic Existence in Self-Difference [Seite 160]
11.11 - Either Post-Difference or "Inbetweenness" [Seite 163]
11.12 - The Theater of Identity [Seite 164]
11.13 - Judaism Otherwise [Seite 165]
11.14 - Jewish Particularity [Seite 168]
11.15 - Converted Thoughts [Seite 171]
11.16 - Conversion and Conversation [Seite 173]
11.17 - Religious Identity, the Past and the Future, the Same and the Other [Seite 174]
11.18 - Other-Oriented and World-Oriented Religion [Seite 175]
11.19 - Religious Pluralism [Seite 177]
11.20 - The Dialogical Self and Intercultural Communication [Seite 179]
11.21 - Beyond Relativism and Absolutism [Seite 182]
11.22 - Dialogue Beyond Identity [Seite 183]
11.23 - The Challenge of Meta-Identical Religiosity for Conflict Resolution [Seite 186]
11.24 - Religious Violence [Seite 189]
11.25 - Self-Narrative and Narrative of the Other [Seite 190]
11.26 - Reflection, Turning and the Search for the Deeper Self [Seite 193]
12 - Chapter 8 [Seite 195]
12.1 - The Interpreted and Interpreting I [Seite 195]
12.2 - The Idea of Election or the I as Interpreted by the Other [Seite 196]
12.3 - The I in Travail with the Other [Seite 197]
12.4 - Loving the Other [Seite 200]
12.5 - Global Consciousness versus Universal Consciousness [Seite 201]
12.6 - Jewish Alterity and Larger Society: Dissimilation in Assimilation [Seite 203]
12.7 - Jews, "jews" and the Law [Seite 205]
12.8 - Lessing and Beyond, Unity and Diversity [Seite 206]
12.9 - Dialogical Hermeneutics [Seite 212]
12.10 - The New Dialogue Between Secularism and Religion [Seite 218]
12.11 - Reinterpreting Traditional Religious Concepts [Seite 220]
12.12 - Interaction Between Religion and Secular Modernity [Seite 223]
12.13 - Combining Libraries versus the All-Encompassing Library of Babel [Seite 224]
12.14 - One Voice and a Multitude of Books [Seite 227]
12.15 - Combining Cultures and Sharing God's Care for the Human Being [Seite 230]
12.16 - Love God With All Your Heart [Seite 233]
12.17 - Interpreting With the Other in Mind [Seite 234]
13 - Bibliography [Seite 236]
14 - Index of Names [Seite 243]
