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Commentary Footnotes
February 2003
Footnotes for
Response to Paul Mendes-Flohr's Commentary “The Desert Within
and Social Renewal: Martin Buber's Vision of Utopia”
by Gregory
Kaplan
(Rice University)
1 See Paul Mendes-Flohr, From Mysticism to Dialogue: Martin Buber's Transformation of German Social Thought (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989).
2 Cited by Paul from Martin Buber, “Distance and Relation.”
3 Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970), pp. 98-99.
4 Martin Buber, Paths in Utopia, trans. R.F.C. Hull (Albany: Syracuse University Press, 1996), p. 134.
5 See Gershom Scholem, “Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism,” trans. Michael A. Meyer, in The Messianic Idea in Judaism (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), pp. 1-36, on apocalyptic and restorative versions of Messianism.
