The Religion & Culture Web Forum
February 2003
"The Desert Within and Social Renewal: Martin Buber's Vision of Utopia"
by Paul
Mendes-Flohr
(University of Chicago Divinity School)
This month's commentary is by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is titled "The Desert Within and Social Renewal: Martin Buber's Vision of Utopia." It will run through the month of February, after which it will continue to be accessible through the Web Forum archive. We invite you to read through Professor Mendes-Flohr's comments, as well as those of his formal respondent, Gregory Kaplan, the Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. Feel free to post your own comments on this subject on the public discussion board.
This essay has been removed. See now Paul Mendes-Flohr, "The Desert
Within and Social Renewal: Martin Buber's Vision of Utopia" in New
Perspectives on Martin Buber, ed. Michael Zank (Series: Religion
in Philosophy and Theology, ed. Ingo U. Dalferth, vol. 22) Tuebingen:
Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
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