Martin Buber: 20 books

Edited by Profesor Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr “No matter how brilliant it may be, the human intellect that wishes to keep to a plane above the events of the day is not really alive,” wrote Martin Buber in 1932. The correspondence of Martin Buber reveals a personality passionately...

»Alles, was deine Hand zu tun findet, tue in deiner Kraft.« (Martin Buber) Der Originaltext dieses Buches geht zurück auf einen Vortrag Martin Bubers, den er im Jahr 1947 gehalten hat. Er beschreibt hier, was für das Leben der Chassidim wichtig war. In ihrer Welt findet er Antworten auf...

Biblical in origin, the expression "eclipse of God" refers to the Jewish concept of hester panim, the act of God concealing his face as a way of punishing his disobedient subjects. Though this idea is deeply troubling for many people, in this book Martin Buber uses the expression hopefully—for...

Famous Zionist philosopher Martin Buber introduces the Western audience in his modern masterpiece. This book is a result of forty years of study, and Buber interprets the ideas and motives that underlie the great Jewish religious movement of Hasidism and its creator, Baal-Shem. Buber’s interpretation...

Explore the work of three great existential philosophers together in this collection.   Hasidism: Zionist philosopher Martin Buber shares the results of forty years of study and introduces the philosophies of Hasidism to a Western audience. In this modern masterpiece, Buber interprets the ideas and...

Mystische Erzählungen voller Weisheit und Tiefe Mit dichterischem Einfühlungsvermögen erzählt Martin Buber in dieser Auswahl einige der bedeutendsten Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman (1772-1810), einem der letzten großen Vertreter des Chassidismus. Seine Geschichten erzählen vom Ringen der...

This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Takes of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. Martin Buber devoted forty years of his life to collecting and retelling the legends of Hasidim. "Nowhere in the last centuries," wrote Buber in...

Hasidism, a controversial, mystical-religious movement of Eastern European origin, has posed a serious challenge to mainstream Judaism from its earliest beginnings in the middle of the eighteenth century. Decimated by the Holocaust, it has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and has reconstituted...

"Questo libro si è sviluppato nel corso di molti anni, come il frutto maturato lentamente di un lungo lavoro di ricerca e di interpretazione della grande letteratura chassidica, dei suoi insegnamenti e delle sue leggende". Con queste parole Martin Buber ci introduce agli otto saggi che...

I AND THOU is one of the most important books of Western Theology. In it, Martin Buber, heavily influenced by the writings of Nietzsche, unites the proto-Existentialist currents of modern German thought with the Judeo-Christian tradition, powerfully updating faith for modern times. Since its first appearance...

Martin Buber's I AND THOU has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent philosophers, religious thinkers and writers have acknowledged its influence on their works. Students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since WWII considers Buber as one of its prophets.

In relazione con Dio è un vero e proprio breviario mistico. Esso contiene le più belle massime e sentenze del fondatore del chassidismo Israel Ben Eliezer (detto il Baal Shem Tov). Raccolte dal suo interprete per eccellenza, Martin Buber, rappresentano un passaggio decisivo per accedere alla dimensione...

Finalmente, raccolti in un unico volumetto, vengono pubblicati i tre discorsi sull'educazione di Martin Buber, uno dei maggiori filosofi del 900. La raccolta focalizza in temi precisi l'approccio di Buber verso "l'educativo", che abbraccia in prima istanza la figura dell'educatore.

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...