Mystik der All-Einheit oder Mystik der Relation? Martin Bubers Eckhart-Rezeption in ihrem geistesgeschichtlichen Kontext

Autor(en)

Martina Roesner

Abstrakt

Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue is commonly considered the very opposite of all forms of fusional mysticism, all the more so because Buber, after having been genuinely fascinated by the mystical paradigm during his early period, subjects it to thorough criticism during his later years. This paper intends to examine the reasons for Buber’s anti-mystical turn, and in particular the role that Gustav Landauer’s interpretation of Eckhart’s thought may have played in this development. As a matter of fact, Landauer reads Eckhart as a mystic of pantheistic unity and completely ignores his metaphysics of the intellect. However, it is precisely Eckhart’s concept of the intellect that allows him to conceive the relationship between the divine “I” and the human “I” as ineliminable difference which does not abolish, but on the contrary, constitute man’s ethical responsibility. One may therefore conclude that Buber’s I and Thou, while written with the explicit intention to overcome mysticism as such, is paradoxically a far more adequate interpretation of Eckhart’s thought than Buber’s earlier writings.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bibelwissenschaft

Journal

Theologie und Philosophie

Band

92 (2017)

Seiten

161-191

Anzahl der Seiten

31

ISSN

0040-5655

DOI

https://doi.org/10.23769/thph-92-2017-161-191

Publikationsdatum

07-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603118 Religionsphilosophie, 603103 Ethik, 603104 Geschichte der Philosophie, 603221 Spirituelle Theologie

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