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I and Thou

By: Martin Bube

...s hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context of... ...ilosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context of Buber's 'previous intensive study, chiefly of Jewish mystical writings. It... ...t is, indeed, philosophical; but it is not an academic work of discursive philosophy. It is mystical, but it belongs to what' Pringle-Pattison has t... ..., as persons and as groups, in the modern world. This immediate value of Buber's work becomes clear if we consider its main thesis. There is, Buber... ...on of persons, organisa:tion in the connexion vii between things. It is Buber's signal achievement to have so expressed the nature of the personal... ...as thus called in doubt the massive monistic system within which !dealist philosophy has worked. The direct influence of Buber on philosophical tho... ...than it. The memory as it is being trained ranges the grand relational _ events, the elemental emotional shocks. The most important for the instinc... ...than it. The memory as it is being trained ranges the grand relational . events, the elemental emotional shocks. The mOISt important for the instin... ... man becomes 1. That which confronts him comes and disappears, relational events condense, then are scattered, and in the change con­ sciousness of ...

...and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology....

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