Live @ Drisha: Winter Week

This lecture compares Martin Buber's emphasis on mutuality in dialogue with Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas' philosophies of dialogue. While Rosenzweig and Levinas share much in common with Buber, they stress the fundamentally asymmetrical nature of our relation to others (we owe others something but they don't owe us anything) and to God (God commands us; we don't command God). We will explore the implications of these three philosophers' ideas for interreligious dialogue as well as their use of gendered language to make their claims.