Encounter on the Narrow Ridge
Subtitle: A Life of Martin Buber
By: Maurice Friedman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Paragon House
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781557784537
Subjects: Buber, Martin, 1878-1965; Jewish philosophers -- Germany -- Biography; Jewish philosophers -- Israel -- Biography; Zionists -- Biography; Philosophy, Jewish
Description: Martin Buber’s stature as the most significant Jewish religious philosopher of the twentieth century is reinforced by his accomplishments and renown in areas as diverse as Hasidism, psychotherapy, education, folklore, and politics. His classic, *I and Thou*, is known and studied all over the world.

In this complete and masterful biography, Maurice Friedman traces the interweaving of Buber’s wholehearted engagement with world events and crises and the evolution of his unique and influential philosophy. We see the impact of World War I on the young thinker; his work in education, community, and politics between the wars; his leadership of the spiritual resistance to the Nazis in Hitler’s Germany; and his more than forty years of fighting for Jewish-Arab understanding. In addition, we see Buber interact with Heidegger, Sartre, Jung, Ben Gurion, Hesse, Rosenzweig, and Hammarskjold.

Through his close relationship with Buber and recent access to forty-five thousand unpublished letters, Maurice Friedman recreates Buber’s vitality, his philosophy of dialogue, and his spirituality based on a personal relationship with God. *Encounter on the Narrow Ridge* delivers the essential spontaneity of a great man who saw in every encounter a focal point for human growth.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: I
title: The Road to I and Thou (1878–1923; label: 1
title: Cildhood and Youth (1878–1900)
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Zionism (1898–1904)
pagenum: 21; label: 3
title: Mysicism: The Discovery of Hasidism (1904-1914)
pagenum: 37; label: 4
title: Prewar Techings of “Realization” (1909–1913)
pagenum: 55; label: 5
title: The First World War and the Breakthrough to Dialogue (1914–1918)
pagenum: 73; label: 6
title: Communal Socialism and Revolution: The Murder of Landauer (1906–1919)
pagenum: 99; label: 7
title: Postwar Zioism, Educaton, and Politics (1918–1922)
pagenum: 116; label: 8
title: Ascent to I and Thou (1916–1923)
pagenum: 125; label: II
title: The Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany (1923–1938); label: 9
title: Frans Rosenzeig and the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible (1921–1929)
pagenum: 155; label: 10
title: The Weimar Republic (1922–1932)
pagenum: 178; label: 11
title: Nazi Germany (1933–1938)
pagenum: 208; label: III
title: Prewar Palestine and the Early Years of the State (1938–1953); label: 12
title: Ascent to the Land: Prewar Palestine (1934-1939)
pagenum: 235; label: 13
title: The Second Word War (1939–1945)
pagenum: 257; label: 14
title: Jewish Arab Rapprochement and Conflict (1939–1949)
pagenum: 268; label: 15
title: Biblical Judism, Hasdism, and Adult Education (1943–1959)
pagenum: 285; label: IV
title: Postwar Germany and America: Replies to Critics (1945–1963); label: 16
title: Dialogue with German Christians (1945–1961)
pagenum: 315; label: 17
title: Dialogue with Americans (1951–1956)
pagenum: 333; label: 18
title: Encounter with Psychotherapy and Paula’s Death (1951–1958)
pagenum: 355; label: 19
title: Replies to Critics: Buber versus Scholem (1956–1963)
pagenum: 377; label: V
title: Hammarskjöld, Ben Gurion, and Last Years (1949–1965; label: 20
title: Buber and Dag Hammarskjöld: The Covenant of Peace (1952–1963)
pagenum: 409; label: 21
title: Buber versus Ben Gurion (1949–1964)
pagenum: 420; label: 22
title: Surfeited with Honors (1958–1964)
pagenum: 436; label: 23
title: On the World’s Edge (1959–1965)
pagenum: 447; title: Sources
pagenum: 461; title: Annotted Bibliography
pagenum: 467