The Act of Love promotes a philosophical revival of Bubers dialogical thought by repositioning it as a philosophy of action, departing from a long-established consensus that narrowly viewed it as a post-Kantian epistemology. Based on careful analysis of his writings, the books main thrust is to reconstruct Bubers argument that dialogue is the perfected form of action, and a perfect action is necessarily dialogical. This reconstruction renders Buber's dialogical thought pertinent to contemporary analytic philosophy by situating it within central discussions in the field of philosophy of action.
1: Rekindling Buber: From Philosophical Eclipse to Potential Revival, An
Introduction.- 2: The Centrality of Action in Bubers Dialogical Thought.-
3: Chaos, Abyss and Whirl: Ambivalence as the Seedbed of Action.- 4: From
Above and the Deep: Decision as the First Phase of Action.- 5: With ones
whole being: Unity in I and Thou.- 6: Unity as a Dimension of Action in
'Images of Good and Evil' and Concurrent Essays.- 7: The Café Encounter:
Unraveling the Unity-Dialogue Nexus.- 8: Beyond Anscombe and Davidson: A
Buberian Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy of Action, Conclusion and
Coda.
Dr. Asaf Ziderman, a scholar of Modern Jewish thought, earned his PhD from Tel Aviv University's School of Philosophy in 2019. His current research focuses on a philosophical analysis of intimacy, meaning, identity, and belonging within 20th-century Jewish thought.
