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November 17, 2023
What Martin Buber Can Teach Us about Political Life
I, thou, and the recognition of fundamental humanity.
Looking at the degraded state of political discourse in America, Paul Meilander turns to the thought of the 20th-century Jewish philosopher and theologian Martin Buber. Meilander admits that Buber’s most famous work, I and Thou, is a “frustrating book” that is often “fragmentary, allusive, vague,” and “overwritten.” But he also finds in it some surprising lessons:
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What Martin Buber Can Teach Us about Political Life
I, thou, and the recognition of fundamental humanity.