Martin Buber is one of the great Jewish thinkers and activists of the past century. His philosophy of “I and Thou” and his ideology of “Hebrew Humanism” have been extremely influential worldwide. I ...

The philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965) was a towering figure in academia, an interpreter of Jewish mysticism and Hassidism, and a dissident figure in the Zionist movement. The first major biography ...

What might Martin Buber and postmodern Jewish thought have to do with a Grateful Dead concert? At first glance, not much. One belongs to the world of ethical ...

“I and Thou,” a short treatise by the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, was published in German in 1923; by the time it appeared in English, fourteen years later, the translator could already call it ...

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Fifty years after his death in Jerusalem in 1965, Martin Buber, the Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher has “left an ambiguous impression,” as Walter Benjamin wrote to Gershom Scholem in 1936 ...

Martin Buber’s “I and Thou” has become a cult classic of modern Western theology in the years since it was first published in Germany, nearly a century ago. The book took intellectual and spiritual ...

My discussion with NYFA's Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp participants made me think of Martin Buber's book, I and Thou. He describes two basic modes of engaging the world: experience and encounter.

In the late 1950s and 1960s, a debate, although passionate nevertheless, based on mutual respect and admiration, took place between the philosopher-theologian, Martin Buber (who immigrated to ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Robert Alter MARTIN BUBER A Life of Faith and Dissent By Paul Mendes-Flohr Martin Buber vaulted ...