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Martin Buber
This remarkable work presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a truly life-enhancing book.
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Originally published in German in 1923, I and Thou was an influential work that explained the meaning behind human existence. Buber explains that existence can be addressed in two ways…
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A definitive, international guide to the thought of the most important twentieth-century Jewish philosopher.
In his 1923 essay, I and Thou, the philosopher, theologian, and activist Martin Buber introduced a…
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A new edition of Martin Buber's many writings on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine, with updated forewords by two preeminent Palestinian and Jewish scholars.
The theologian and philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965)…
Better than any other single work, Daniel enables us to understand the significance of the transition Buber made from his early mysticism to the philosophy of dialogue. The book is…
Martin Wasserman
Martin Buber, during his lifetime, often asserted that he had no doctrine to teach but likened his efforts to taking persons to a window and asking them to look outside…
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Stephen M. Panko
Because Martin Buber lived, there is more love in the world than there would have been without him. And for him that was the reason above all others for the…
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, ranks among the most influential works of moral philosophy to have shaped contemporary conceptions of identity, religion, democracy, psychology, and…
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At the turn of the century Martin Buber arrived on the philosophic scene. His path to maturity was one long struggle with the problem of unity - in particular with…
Samuel Hayim Brody
Brody argues that Buber’s support for Israel stemmed from a radically rich and complex understanding of the nature of the Jewish mission on earth that arose from an anarchist reading…
Martin Buber,Paul Arthur Schilpp,Maurice S. Friedman
Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers, this volume focuses on Martin Buber.
This collection of 700 letters traces Martin Buber’s transition from mystically inclined man of letters to teacher of his people who preached a renewed sense of community, a binational Palestinian…
Dan Avnon
In Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue, Dan Avnon analyses and reconstructs Buber’s corpus of mature writings, revealing the radical nature of Buber’s responses to the most fundamental questions of human…
Donald L. Berry
This is an elegant book. By skillfully blending meticulous scholarship with points of genuine human interest, Donald Berry gives fresh insight into Martin Buber’s vision of mutuality. Berry focuses on…
Maurice S Friedman
This comprehensive biography of the famous philosopher Martin Buber delves into the life and times of one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. Focusing on Buber's…
S. Daniel Breslauer
The book provides an insightful study of the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, and combines a review of the unconventional Zionism he proposed with a sensitivity to myth as the basis…
Paul Mendes-Flohr
This volume seeks to honour the memory and legacy of Martin Buber, one of the most illustrious members of the faculty of the Hebrew University and of the world of…
This is the first book on Buber to address the full scope of his seminal influence for any number of thinkers and fields from philosophy to psychotherapy to literary theory.
Phil Huston
What does Martin Buber mean, in I and Thou , by the claim that the one thing that matters is full acceptance of presence? This work seeks to clarify Buber’s…
Maurice Friedman
This is a close and meditative consideration of a deeply intellectual friendship shared between two extraordinary thinkers, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber and scholar Maurice Friedman.
Maurice S. Friedman
This title provides a complete overview of Martin Buber’s thought, and is a definitive guide to the full range of his work. It focuses on the two crucial issues of…
This book summarizes and evaluates the contribution of Martin Buber as a theorist of myth. It offers a coherent and unified study focusing on Buber’s approach to myth as part…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
These 20 stories about the founder of the Hasidic faith, Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem or Master of God’s Name, provide an account of the genesis of Hasidism, still…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This work contains the autobiographical fragments Buber selected, and also wrote afresh, at Princeton in 1958 and in Jerusalem in 1960, in collaboration with Dr Friedman.
Buber makes explicit the place of Hasidism among world religious, contrasting it with biblical prophecy, Spinoza, Freud, Sankara, Meister Eckhart, Gnosticism, Christianity, Zionism, and Zen Buddhism.
Buber poetically interprets the central aspects of Hasidic life, offers a selection of sayings from Baal-Shem-Tov, and movingly recounts his personal path to Hasidism.
A study of the political communal image of kingship in the Old Testament.
Martin Buber believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic work where he puts…
In this work, Buber expounds upon and defends the Zionist experiment - a federal system of communities on a co-operative basis. He looks to the anarchists Proudhon, Kropotkin and Gustav…
Famous Zionist philosopher Martin Buber introduces the philosophies of Hasidism to a Western audience in his modern masterpiece. This book is a result of forty years of study, and Buber…
