Martin Buber’s Dialogue: Discovering Who We Really Are
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Overview
Martin Buber, one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished and creative thinkers, famously argued that the fundamental fact of human existence is person with person, and that practicing genuine dialogue is necessary for anyone who wishes to become authentically human. This book seeks to unleash and reassemble the core elements for practicing dialogue--turning and addressing, and then listening and responding. Despite what many say, the innermost growth of the self does not come in relation to one’s self. Rather, attaining one’s authentic human existence (one’s innate self-realization) emerges again and again through genuine dialogue, through “participatory consciousness.” We become authentically human in and through our relationships with others. Here’s the point--instead of having dialogues, human beings mutually become dialogue with others. Individual human beings in dialogue with one another become memorable mutualities found nowhere else, opening out into the world.
“Kenneth Kramer in Buber’s Dialogue: Discovering Who We
Really Are, invites us to the harvest of our own lives. Readers
learn to open this orchard gate, step into a conversation with each
and every moment, delight in the surprise of ‘just this.’ Taste how
the fruit of genuine dialogue, always ripe, always life-giving,
awaits you.”
—Ziggy Rendler-Bregman, Author, The Gate of Our Coming and
Going
“Kenneth P. Kramer’s new book on the philosopher and
humanist Martin Buber is an engaging read. Buber believed in the
interactions between people through dialogue and defined elements
of the dialogic necessary to attain meaningful exchanges. Through
his own life’s story and many anecdotes, Kramer shows how Buber
shaped and influenced his life, thereby providing the reader with a
portal into Buber’s thinking. The book is highly successful and how
timely, coming at this crucial moment in history, when so little
dialogue is present.”
—Bill Atwood, Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz
“Kenneth Kramer has already written books leaning away from theory
toward practice. I think of Learning through Dialogue, which
I recently used for a senior seminar in humanities. But the present
book goes whole hog into the realm of practice and, moreover, aims
to engage Buber ‘neophytes,’ as Kramer calls certain intended
readers of his book. Indeed, he confesses that at one point during
its writing the task threatened to overwhelm him. In a moment of
self doubt, he asked: ‘How could I ever write a book that would do
justice to Buber’s brilliance on the one hand, and captivate
neophytes to his dialogical technology on the other?’ I am happy to
report that in this regard his book is a total success. While
reading it, I continually found myself drawn out of my scholarly
shell and into my personal struggle over how best to live my
life.”
—Christian Jochim, San Jose State University
- Title: Martin Buber’s Dialogue: Discovering Who We Really Are
- Authors: Kenneth Paul Kramer, Robert C. Morgan
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781532665776, 9781532665752, 9781532665769, 1532665776, 1532665768, 153266575X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781532665776
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-11T01:19:33Z
Kenneth Paul Kramer is a professor emeritus of Comparative
Religious Studies at San José State University. He is the author of
three other books on Martin Buber, including Martin Buber’s “I
and Thou”: Practicing Living Dialogue (2003).