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Dialogical Thought and Identity
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- The Problem of Identity in Dialogical Philosophy
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Self-Transcendence, Self-Difference, and Trans-Difference. Philosophical and Theological Considerations
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Bibliography
- Index of Names