Yemima Hadad. "Martin Buber's Dialogical History: Theopolitics as a Critique of the History of Human Power." Jewish Quarterly Review 113, no. 2 (2023): 249-272. (original) (raw)
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Through a textual and contextual analysis of Martin Buber's scholarly disquisition, Königtum Gottes (1932), the article focuses on his critique of political Messianism. This critique is addressed to his friends who participated in the Bavarian Revolution of 1918/19, the political theology of Friedrich Gogarten and Carl Schmitt, and given trends in Zionism. With regard to the latter, Buber's religious and social anarchism is particularly manifest as it is in his study of the biblical origins of Messianism, Königtum Gottes. The article concludes with a discussion of the affinities of Buber's critique of political Messianism with that of Max Weber who like Buber called for a political and ethical re-valorization of the everyday. This call is contrasted with Walter Benjamin's political Messianism, whose dialectic in effect endorses a similar ethos.
Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions 6, 2011
After the Exodus, Yahweh and the Israelites entered into the Sinai Covenant, which established their relationship as that between the ‘God who guides’ and the ‘people who follow’. Based on this direct relationship between God and the people, a loose federation of tribal communities was built as a system of sovereignty during the period of Judges, in which charismatic rule was exercised by human leaders who were delegated limited power by God from time to time. The direct rule of God means, in substance, rule by human leaders who were given limited power by God. This is an important point that characterizes the period of Judges that precedes the period of the Kingdom. What Buber sought for his contemporary society is an economic system that can provide an organic linkage among different kinds of occupations and that can strike the right balance between production and consumption. In other words, it is a federate society with less top-down control and more voluntary interactions among village communities and occupational associations. Buber, who embraced the idea of utopian social justice, aspired for such a society and worked for its realization. Definitely, this view of Buber stems from his understanding of theocracy as depicted in the Hebrew Bible.
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The current article revisits the tenuous relationship between Martin Buber's conception of divine rule on earth (theopolitics) with Carl Schmitt's famous notion of political theology, by underscoring their shared, though diametrically opposed interest in Gnostic ideas. Based on a reading of Buber's heretofore unpublished lectures on Judaism and Christianity, the study outlines the nexus between the German tradition of scientific research, religious ideology and political visions, in order to show that Buber's treatment of Gnosticism in the lectures is belied by an implicit critique of Schmitt's dualistic distinction between friend and foe that legitimizes the subversion of liberal democracy. The Gnostic canon that Buber identifies in certain parts of the New Testament is shown to be based on the very same scientific research that fed Schmitt's fascination with Gnostic teachings.
Martin Buber Creaturely Life and Social Form Edited by Sarah Scott Contributions by Peter A. Huff, Claire E. Sufrin, Samuel Hayim Brody, Yemima Hadad, William Plevan, Zachary J. Braiterman, Asaf Ziderman, Dustin Atlas and Sarah Scott Published by: Indiana University Press https://iupress.org/9780253063649/martin-buber/#generate-pdf 1. Introduction: A Martin Buber Renaissance, by Sarah Scott Part I: Religious Dialogue 2. Martin Buber and Catholic-Atheist Dialogue, by Peter A. Huff 3. Reading Martin Buber's Bible: Translation and Commentary, by Claire E. Sufrin Part II: Theopolitics 4. Is the Dialogue Between Heaven and Earth an I-Thou Relation?, by Samuel Hayim Brody 5. The Hasidic Zaddik as Theopolitical Leader, by Yemima Hadad Part III: Zionism and Bi-Nationalism 6. Exile and Alienation in Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology, by William Plevan 7. Martin Buber, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Bi-Nationalism, by Zachary J. Braiterman Part IV: Philosophy 8. Chaos, Abgrund, and Wirbel: On Buber's Notion of Ambivalence, by Asaf Ziderman 9. The Eloquent Muteness of Creatures: Affect and Animals in Martin Buber's Dialogical Writings, by Dustin Atlas 10. Monologue Disguised as Dialogue: Almodóvar's Talk to Her and Buber on the "Lovers' Talk", by Sarah Scott List of Contributors Index
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This paper aims to shed some light on the association between the Bible and political philosophy in modern Jewish thought from the angle of Martin Buber's notion of theocracy. To begin with, I will present an overall picture of the general relationship between both the Bible and political philosophy before moving onto Buber's notion of theocracy. Then, I will attempt to obtain a bird's-eye view of the question of theocracy by examining how Buber's thought has been evaluated by the recent scholars of Jewish thought who have addressed Buber's ideology in earnest. In his The Kingdom of God (Königtum Gottes) (1932), Martin Buber (1878-1965 provides in-depth insight into the concept of theocracy, which is of critical importance in considering the relationship between religion and politics. Issues relating to theocracy as raised by Buber are being studied in various fields and still ignite active discussions today.