Language:
German
Pages:
270 Bl.
Year of publication:
1993
Dissertation note:
Wien, Univ., Diss., 1993
Keywords:
Buber, Martin 1878-1965
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Scholem, Gershom 1897-1982
Abstract:
eng: Martin Buber (1878-1965) and Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) are two of the most important representatives of Judaism in modern times. Both searched in a time of radical changes for new ways of Jewish thought-against assimilation and orthodoxy. They wanted to return back to 'Jewish totality' - but in different ways. My thesis will show that instead of the great divergences Buber and Scholem had a similar goal: the fight against dogmatic definitions of Judaism. The connection between Buber and Scholem is the struggle for understanding the 'riddle of Jewish history'. The essential questions of Buber, the philosopher and teacher, and of Scholem, the greatest researcher in Jewish mysticism and messianism in the 20th century, were: What is Judaism? What were the live-giving factors in Jewish history? Both developed a pluralistic picture of Jewish history in their own special ways - Buber with enthusiastic a historic romanticism and Scholem with critical and historical philology. Their different characters and different methods brought them often in sharp confrontations. My thesis shows the confrontations for example in their relation to Zionism and to Chassidism and the connections.
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