Martin Buber : a life of faith and dissent / Paul Mendes-Flohr.

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Mendes-Flohr, Paul R [Author]

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online resource

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9780300245233
0300245238

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B3213.83

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. A Motherless Child; 2. Herald of a Jewish Renaissance; 3. On the Open Seas; 4. From Publicist to Author; 5. Prague: Mystical Religiosity and Beyond; 6. Heir to Landauer's Legacy; 7. A Reverential Apikoros: Friendship with Rosenzweig; 8. The Tragic Grace of Everyday Reality; 9. Professor and Political Activist; 10. Despite Everything; 11. Not to Belong; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations follow page

Summary: The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber. An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments-such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three-Mendes-Flohr shows how this foundational trauma left an enduring mark on Buber's inner life, attuning him to the fragility of human relations and the need to nurture them with what he would call a "dialogical attentiveness." Buber's philosophical and theological writings, most famously I and Thou, made significant contributions to religious and Jewish thought, philosophical anthropology, biblical studies, political theory, and Zionism. In this accessible new biography, Mendes-Flohr situates Buber's life and legacy in the intellectual and cultural life of German Jewry as well as in the broader European intellectual life of the first half of the twentieth century.

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Online Book	G. Allen Fleece Library Online	Non-fiction	B3213.83 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1089126377

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The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber. An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments-such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three-Mendes-Flohr shows how this foundational trauma left an enduring mark on Buber's inner life, attuning him to the fragility of human relations and the need to nurture them with what he would call a "dialogical attentiveness." Buber's philosophical and theological writings, most famously I and Thou, made significant contributions to religious and Jewish thought, philosophical anthropology, biblical studies, political theory, and Zionism. In this accessible new biography, Mendes-Flohr situates Buber's life and legacy in the intellectual and cultural life of German Jewry as well as in the broader European intellectual life of the first half of the twentieth century.

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