A note on rethinking Martin Buber’s ‘I consider a tree’
In the original English version of I and Thou (1937) and in a postscript to the second English edition (1958), Martin Buber assured his readers that an I-Thou relationship is possible between a person and a tree. Considering the importance of dialogue in that form of relationship, commentators have...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Donner Institute
2022
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Nordisk judaistik
Year: 2022, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 49-51 |
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Viktor Frankl
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| Summary: | In the original English version of I and Thou (1937) and in a postscript to the second English edition (1958), Martin Buber assured his readers that an I-Thou relationship is possible between a person and a tree. Considering the importance of dialogue in that form of relationship, commentators have often looked for ways to bypass the tree’s inability to speak in reconceptualising the I-Thou relationship. This article looks instead at the importance of the person’s ability to hear what trees may be telling us as a way of understanding Buber’s point. A story found in Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) is used as an illustration. |
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| ISSN: | 2343-4929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nordisk judaistik
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30752/nj.119952 |