July 18, 2013

Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue

"Martin Buber: A Contemporary Perspective" edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (2002).

Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue. Source: University of Chicago. Date Published: July 15, 2013. Description:
Paul Mendes-Flohr's major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of religion, German intellectual history, and the history and sociology of intellectuals. He serves as editor-in-chief of the 22-volume German edition of the collected works of Martin Buber, sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Heinrich Heine Universität, Dusseldorf. He has recently published (in Hebrew) "Progress and Its Discontents" and (with Jehuda Reinharz) "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History." Mendes-Flohr is the editor of a series on German-Jewish literature and cultural history for the University of Chicago Press. He is currently completing a biography of Martin Buber to be published by Yale.
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