Between man and man / Martin Buber ; translated by Ronald Gregor-Smith ; with an introduction by Maurice Friedman.

By:

Buber, Martin, 1878-1965

Contributor(s):

Smith, Ronald Gregor

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge classicsPublication details: London : New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: xx, 268 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0415278260
0415278279 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

193 BUB

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	193 BUB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000366246

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He 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 this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society. Here he tackles subjects as varied as religious ethics, social philosophy, marriage, education, psychology and art. Including some of his most famous writings, such as the masterful What is Man?, this enlightening work challenges each reader to reassess their encounter with the world that surrounds them.

Originally published: London : K. Paul, 1947.

Includes indexes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Foreword (p. ix)
Introduction (p. xi)
1 Dialogue (p. 1)
2 The Question to the Single One (p. 46)
3 Education (p. 98)
4 The Education of Character (p. 123)
5 What is Man? (p. 140)
Translator's Notes (p. 245)
Index of Names (p. 265)
Index of Subjects (p. 267)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Martin Buber was born in Vienna, the son of Solomon Buber, a scholar of Midrashic and medieval literature. Martin Buber studied at the universities of Vienna, Leipzig, Zurich, and Berlin, under Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel. As a young student, he joined the Zionist movement, advocating the renewal of Jewish culture as opposed to Theodor Herzl's political Zionism. At age 26 he became interested in Hasidic thought and translated the tales of Nahman of Bratslav.

Hasidism had a profound impact on Buber's thought. He credited it as being the inspiration for his theories of spirituality, community, and dialogue. Buber is responsible for bringing Hasidism to the attention of young German intellectuals who previously had scorned it as the product of ignorant eastern European Jewish peasants.

Buber also wrote about utopian socialism, education, Zionism, and respect for the Palestinian Arabs, and, with Franz Rosenzweig, he translated the Bible. He was appointed to a professorship at the University of Frankfurt in 1925, but, when the Nazis came to power, he received an appointment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Buber died in 1965.

(Bowker Author Biography)