Martin Buber

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born

February 08, 1878 in Vienna, Austria

died

June 13, 1965

genre

Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

influences

Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche

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Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship.

Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, Buber became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement, although he later withdrew from organizational work in Zionism. In 1923 Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.

In 1930 Buber became an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt am Ma...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 2,697 ratings · 188 reviews · 80 distinct works

	I and Thou by Martin Buber, Walter Kaufmann (translator) 4.06 avg rating — 2,068 ratings — published 1923 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber, Bonny V. Fetterman (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword) 4.18 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1949 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Good and Evil by Martin Buber, Ronald Gregor Smith (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1950 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Between Man and Man by Martin Buber, Ronald Gregor-Smith (Translator), Maurice S. Friedman (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1944 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Way of Man 4.25 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Legend of the Baal-Shem by Martin Buber, Maurice S. Friedman (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Eclipse of God 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Way of Man/Ten Rungs 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Martin Buber, Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (Introduction), Ze'ev Gries (Introduction) 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1906 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Knowledge of Man 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
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“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
― Martin Buber

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“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
― Martin Buber

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