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1 online resource (113 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Meetings; My Mother; My Grandmother; Languauges; 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 Conversation; Report on Two Talks; Samuel and Agag; Beginings; A Tentative Answer; Books and Men; Bibliography |
| Summary |
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 suicide at the age of fourteen, his adolescent 'seduction' by Nietzsche's work, his hero-worship of Ferdinand Lassalle and his love of Bach's music, Meetings has no equal as a portrait of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-113) |
| Notes |
Translation of: Begegnung |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Buber, Martin, 1878-1965 -- Anecdotes
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| SUBJECT |
Buber, Martin, 1878-1965 fast |
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Jewish philosophers -- Germany -- Anecdotes
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Philosophers -- Germany -- Anecdotes
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Jewish philosophers
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Philosophers
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Anecdotes
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Friedman, Maurice S
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| ISBN |
9781136480805 |
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1136480803 |
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1299871011 |
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9781299871014 |
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