The 70th issue of the journal marks the
renewal of Iyyun, which was founded by Martin Buber, Shmuel Hugo Bergman,
Julius Gutman and Sinai Ucko about
seventy-seven years ago.
In the current issue, the question of the
relationship between the future and the present is central, and is discussed
from different angles. At the methodological level, the purpose of the
discussion is to bring the future together with possibilities of speech and
thought that will connect it to the present and rescue it from the base of
indifference and the obvious. In particular, the question will arise here, in
different forms: how is it correct to conceptualize a distant future that is beyond
our influence, without turning it into a doomsday scenario disconnected from
the present? In this context, the question also arises about the place of hope,
and how to understand its meaning and value.
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