Author | : S. Daniel Breslauer |
File Size | : 45,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 05 March 2015 |
ISBN | : 9781317555988 |
Pages | : 209 pages |
Martin Buber on Myth RLE Myth by S. Daniel Breslauer Book PDF Summary
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.