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Martin Buber on Myth (Rle Myth)|S. Daniel Breslauer

Martin Buber on Myth (Rle Myth) : An Introduction

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Overview

This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and evaluates the contribution of Martin Buber as a theorist of myth. Buber provides explicit guidelines for understanding and evaluating myths. He describes reality as twofold: people live either in a world of things, to which they relate as a subject controlling its objects, or in a world of self-conscious others, with whom one relates as fellow subjects. Human beings require both types of reality, but also a means of moving from one to the other. Buber understands myths as one such means by which people pass from I-It reality to I-You meeting. In studying myths, he focuses on the myths in the traditions he knows best, but offers his advice and interpretation of mythology and scholarship about mythology generally.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781138840607
  • ISBN-10: 1138840602
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: March 2015
  • Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Page Count: 410

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