The writings of Martin Buber /
Selected, edited, and introduced by Will Herberg.
- Cleveland, The World Publishing Company 1961
- 351 pages ; 18 cm
Of Human Existence -- I and Thou -- The Question to the Single One -- Good and Evil -- The Love of God and the Idea of Deity: On Hermann Cohen -- God and the Spirit of Man -- Of Social Life -- The idea -- In the Mids of Crisis -- An Experiment that Dis Not Fail -- "And If Not Now, When?" -- Of Biblical faith -- Saga and History -- Holy Event -- "Upon Eagles' Wings" -- The Words on the Tablets -- The Zealous God -- The Contradiction -- Biblical Leadership -- Plato and Isaiah -- The man of Today and the Jewish Bible -- Of Jewish Destiny -- The faith of Judaism -- The Two Foci of the Jewish Soul -- Nationalism -- The Land and its Possessors: An Answer to Gandhi -- On National Education -- Hebrew Humanism -- Zion and the Other National Concepts -- The Silent Question: On Henri Bergson and Simone Weil -- Of Teaching and Learning -- Teaching and Deed
Martin Buber, whose ideas have been one of the primary contemporary sources of religious existentialism, is without a doubt one of the great and enduring thinkers of this century. While his thought is profoundly religious and has its origins in Jewish spiritualism, his writings have captured an audience far beyond that of the theological community, whether Jewish or Christian. The very scope of his ideas of philosophy and religious thought today. Beyond presenting his own original views on existence, society, faith, Jewish destiny, teaching and learning, his work provides fascinating insights into the writing of those who have influenced him –Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Dostoievsky, into the thought of his contemporaries– heidegger, Satre, Jung, to name a few, and into the Hasidic and Zionist movemosnts.