RT Article
T1 “The Bodily Fact of Otherness”: Martin Buber’s Post-Kantian Phenomenology of Dialogue
JF The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
VO 30
IS 2
SP 301
OP 336
A1 Shonkoff, Sam S. B.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1818251744
AB It has become commonplace among scholars to map Martin Buber’s concepts of “I-It” and “I-Thou” onto Kant’s phenomenon and noumenon, respectively. However, this has resulted in significant misconceptions about Buber’s phenomenology of dialogue. In fact, his philosophy was decidedly post-Kantian in the dual sense of being both under the influence of Kant and in opposition to him, and attention to themes of embodiment (Leiblichkeit) in Buber’s writings helps to disentangle these aspects. Through close philological readings, this paper demonstrates how Buber sought to circumvent the transcendental boundary between appearance and being, appropriated Kant’s language of “intuition” to describe a sensory encounter with the presence of a thing in itself, and affirmed that while being is not apprehended in terms of space and time, it is nonetheless spatial and temporal. Ultimately, these investigations elucidate what I term Buber’s dialogical monism, which in some ways anticipated insights of new materialism.
K1 New Materialism
K1 dialogical monism
K1 Embodiment
K1 Phenomenology
K1 Immanuel Kant
K1 Martin Buber
DO 10.1163/1477285x-12341342