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Work #366 · Late

Eclipse of God

Martin Buber
1952 · German
Essay collection · Jewish religious philosophy

Buber's 1952 essays on the modern eclipse of God — engagement with Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger

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Attribute Eclipse of God (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Eclipse of God

Modern historical time of religious crisis.

Space

Eclipse of God

European intellectual-cultural space.

Matter

Eclipse of God

Embodied human existence.

Observer

Eclipse of God

The modern person; Buber as Jewish-philosophical voice.

Energy

Eclipse of God

Energies of religious crisis and renewal.

Information

Eclipse of God

The Jewish tradition responding to modern crisis.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Eclipse of God

Buber's engagement with Heidegger has been continuously analysed.