Aesthetics of Renewal : Martin Buber's Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik - Martina Urban

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Aesthetics of Renewal

Martin Buber's Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik

By: Martina Urban

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Hardcover | 7 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Martin Buber's embrace of Hasidism at the start of the twentieth century was instrumental to the revival of this popular form of Jewish mysticism. Hoping to instigate a Jewish cultural and spiritual renaissance, he published a series of anthologies of Hasidic teachings written in German to introduce the tradition to a wide audience. In "Aesthetics of Renewal," Martina Urban closely analyzes Buber's writings and sources to explore his interpretation of Hasidic spirituality as a form of cultural criticism. For Buber, Hasidic legends and teachings were not a static, canonical body of knowledge, but were dynamic and open to continuous reinterpretation. Urban argues that this representation of Hasidism was essential to the Zionist effort to restore a sense of unity across the Jewish diaspora as purely religious traditions weakened--and that Buber's anthologies in turn played a vital part in the broad movement to use cultural memory as a means to reconstruct a collective identity for Jews. As Urban unravels the rich layers of Buber's vision of Hasidism in this insightful book, he emerges as one of the preeminent thinkers on the place of religion in modern culture.

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"Urban's superb study combines remarkable erudition with refined interpretative skills in an innovative contribution to our understanding of the often elusive role of Hasidism in Martin Buber's thought. Because her focus on Buber always points towards an evocative periphery, her book opens a field of larger relevance that will engage readers far beyond the circle of Buber scholars." - Asher D. Biemann, University of Virginia"

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Judaism Jewish Mysticism Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Ideas History

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Buber's Hermeneutic Horizon	p. 16
The Anthology and the Jewish Renaissance	p. 29
An Attempt at Definition	p. 29
Anthology as a Jewish Form	p. 31
The Jewish Library Reconfigured	p. 36
Buber's Anthologies and German Romantic Nationalism	p. 37
Zionist Anthologies	p. 40
Moderate Modernism: Hayyim Nahman Bialik's "Ingathering"	p. 40
Between Eastern Hebrew Nationalism and Western Jewish Renewal	p. 44
Berdyczewski's Sefer Hasidim	p. 47
In Search of Collaborators	p. 55
The Role of Marcus Ehrenpreis	p. 55
Micha Josef Berdyczewski: An Ambivalent Collaborator	p. 56
The Galician Circle of Elusive Collaborators	p. 60
Shmuel Yosef Agnon: An Anthology Shelved	p. 60
Mordekhai Ben-Yehezkel: The Folklorist as Anthologist	p. 62
Samuel Abba Horodezky: A Silent Collaborator	p. 67
Ahad Ha'am's Theory of Culture Revised	p. 70
Language and the Jewish Renaissance	p. 73
Sprachkritik: The Crisis of Perception	p. 76
Jewish Culture: Between Mystical Aesthetics and Lebensphilosophie	p. 94
Excursus on Ecstasy and Temporality	p. 107
A Phenomenology of Hasidic Mysticism	p. 116
Preparing the Readers: Basic Religious Ideas	p. 116
Hitlahavut-On Ecstatic Immediacy	p. 125
'Avodah-On Mystical Self-Sacrifice	p. 131
Kawwanah-On Redemptive Devotion	p. 136
Shiflut-On Relation	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 156
Buber's Sources for Die Legende des Baalschem	p. 164
Notes	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 228
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