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100 years after its original publication, Martin Buber’s landmark work of philosophy and theology I and Thou remains one of the most important books of Western thought and a seminal work of 20th-century intellectual history. Considered to be one of the most influential books of Western thought since... Read More about I And Thou

Beginning with Buber's seminal essay on mysticism, this book offers texts down the centuries from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim sources. It aims to convey some quality of an experience that is essentially beyond the power of words to capture.... Read More about Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism (Martin Buber Library)

Written over 40 years, this text seeks to: clarify the relation of certain aspects of Jewish thinking and Jewish living to contemporary intellectual movements; and to analyze those trends within Jewish life, which, surrendering to many ideologies, tend to weaken the teachings of Israel.... Read More about Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis (Martin Buber Library)

This volume grew out of a series of lectures by the author in 1944. He analyzes the centrality of Zion to biblical and Talmudic thought, how it inspired medieval thinkers and mystics, and how it moved modern Jews from Moses Hess to Ray Kook and A.D. Gordon.... Read More about On Zion: The History of an Idea (Martin Buber Library)

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 written in the form of five dialogues, in each of which Daniel and his friends explore a crucial philosophical problem-... Read More about Daniel: Dialogues on Realization (Martin Buber Library)

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.... Read More about Meetings