Kultura źródłem polityki
Culture as a Source of Politics
The Hasidic Work of Martin Buber
Author(s): Dorota Halina KutyłaSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Jewish studies
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: Buber; Hasidism; Baal-Shem-Tov; assimilation; Jewishness; political Zionism; cultural Zionism; Heine
Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the relationship between culture and politics. Martin Buber, one of the leading representatives of cultural Zionism, believes that a nation must first build its own culture and then establish state institutions or governments based on it. The paper presents Martin Buber's works concerning the Hasidic world and the reactions that they aroused among Western Jews. For many of them, Buber’s Hasidic stories became the basis for their spiritual and cultural rebirth, as a result of which they began to identify with the Jewish people again. However, the dispute between political and cultural Zionists has not been settled yet.
Journal: Civitas. Studia z filozofii polityki
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 263-281
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Polish