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...visiting philosopher walked into a New York barbershop, sat down in a chair, and, while the scissors clicked away, he closed his eyes, deep in thought. Before he realized what was happening, most of his thick, long beard was gone. The philosopher was Martin Buber, the world's leading Jewish thinker. Today Buber's beard has grown back to its full splendor, and he once more looks like what he is: a modern Jewish patriarch...
Vienna-born Martin Buber, 77, lives in Jerusalem, where he taught philosophy at the Hebrew University from 1938 until his retirement five years ago. Long a prominent Zionist thinker, he is now at odds with the Israeli government, and the splinter group of which he is a leader (Ihud, meaning Union) is almost the only voice in Israel advocating cooperation with the Arabs. But Buber's main achievement lies in his tense, paradoxical, spiritual philosophy that has perhaps been as influential among Christian theologians, e.g., Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, as among Jews. A new book...
...Martin Buber, the Life of Dialogue, by Philosophy Professor Maurice S. Friedman of Sarah Lawrence College (University of Chicago; $6) is the first comprehensive study of Buber's thought...
...Hebrew Epic, the Hebrew prophets, the wisdom of the authors of Job, the life and teachings of Jesus, the Resurrection Faith of the early Christian church, the synoptic vision of an Augustine or Thomas Aquinas, the courage of Luther or the consistency of Calvin, the . . . challenging insights of Kierkegaard, Buber, Earth, Tillich, or the Niebuhrs-what they find when they look at all this for the first time is, I suggest, at least something to think about, and finally something to decide about, one way or another...
...same year, Taubes became a close friend of Paul Tillich, with whom he studied, and of Yale's famed philosopher, Paul Weiss Martin Buber secured him a position as Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the following year. Taubes found that his course on Hegel and Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal...