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Meetings: Autobiographical Fragments book cover

2nd Edition

Meetings Autobiographical Fragments

By Martin Buber Copyright 2003
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge
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Meetings sets forth the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest spiritual philosophers in his own words. A glittering series of reflections and narratives, it seeks not to describe his life in its full entirety, but rather to convey some of his defining moments of uncertainty, revelation and meaning. Recalling the question on the infinity of space and time which nearly drove Buber to... Read more
Introduction; Meetings; My Mother; My Grandmother; Languages; My Father; The School; The Two Boys; The Horse; Philosophers; Vienna; A Lecture; The Cause and the Person; The Zaddik; The Walking Stick and the Tree; Question and Answer; A Conversion; Report on two Talks; Samuel and Agag; Beginnings; A Tentative Answer (Jerusalem, May 1955); Books and Men; Bibliography

Biography

Martin Buber (1878-1965) has been described as the greatest religious thinker of the twentieth century, and was as influential to Christian theology as to Jewish philosophy. A prolific commentator on topics as diverse as art, sociology, education and religious philosophy, and was the author of I and Thou, The Way of Man and Good and Evil

'I only met Buber once, but I felt then that I was in the presence of greatness.' - T.S. Eliot

'Martin Buber is one of the creative minds of our age.' - Hans Urs von Balthasar

'This short book contains some remarkable apercus, including a passionate conversation with a distinguished thinker ...' - The Scientific and Medical Network

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