Dan Avnon is senior lecturer of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is editor of a number of books, including The Israeli Parties Law: Between a Legal Framework and Democratic Norms. The author of numerous essays in political theory and comparative politics, he also wrote the script for In Search of the Lost Tribes (a 13-part documentary aired on Israel's Independent Television, 1996). He is editor of Squaring the Circle: Liberalism Between Promise and Practice (forthcoming from Routledge).

This is a fine 'ab intra' journey that accompanies Buber to the hidden source of Israel's heart, forever covered up by Jacob's descendants and modern, merely clever philosophers. The journey unseals the heart of Buber's mature summons to world history, his subversive prophecy, and Avnon's tough querying of an anguished cry from an open heart.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Biography: From Mysticism to Dialogue to Attentive SilenceChapter 4 Bible: The Hidden HermeneuticsChapter 5 Hidden History: The "Two Stream" of AdamChapter 6 Dialogical Philosophy: Between the Words of Texts and the Content of ThoughtChapter 7 Dialogical Community: The Third Way between Individualism and CollectivismChapter 8 Dialogue as Politics: Zioniam and the (Mis)meeting of Bible, History, Philosophy, and PoliticsChapter 9 Abbreviations of Buber's Works Cited in NotesChapter 10 NotesChapter 11 Index

Dan Avnon is senior lecturer of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is editor of a number of books, including The Israeli Parties Law: Between a Legal Framework and Democratic Norms. The author of numerous essays in political theory and comparative politics, he also wrote the script for In Search of the Lost Tribes (a 13-part documentary aired on Israel's Independent Television, 1996). He is editor of Squaring the Circle: Liberalism Between Promise and Practice (forthcoming from Routledge).

This is a fine 'ab intra' journey that accompanies Buber to the hidden source of Israel's heart, forever covered up by Jacob's descendants and modern, merely clever philosophers. The journey unseals the heart of Buber's mature summons to world history, his subversive prophecy, and Avnon's tough querying of an anguished cry from an open heart.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Biography: From Mysticism to Dialogue to Attentive SilenceChapter 4 Bible: The Hidden HermeneuticsChapter 5 Hidden History: The "Two Stream" of AdamChapter 6 Dialogical Philosophy: Between the Words of Texts and the Content of ThoughtChapter 7 Dialogical Community: The Third Way between Individualism and CollectivismChapter 8 Dialogue as Politics: Zioniam and the (Mis)meeting of Bible, History, Philosophy, and PoliticsChapter 9 Abbreviations of Buber's Works Cited in NotesChapter 10 NotesChapter 11 Index