Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic work where he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society. Here he tackles subjects as varied as religious ethics, social philosophy, marriage, education, psychology and art. Including some of his most famous writings, such as the masterful What is Man?, this enlightening work...

Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Told through stories of imagination and spirit, together with Buber's own unique insights, The Way of Man offers us a way of understanding ourselves and our place in a spiritual world. 'There is something', he suggests, 'that can only be found in one place. It is a great treasure, which may be called the...

We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced hope.

Seeking to understand the faith we place in leadership, the authors draw on a number of in-depth studies of managers trying to "do" leadership. It presents six metaphors for the leader: as gardener, cosy-crafter, saint, cyborg, commander and bully. Some of these offer unexpected insights into how leadership does and does...

'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold NiebuhrMartin Buber (1897-19) was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art at the universities of Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, he became an active Zionist and was closely involved in the revival of Hasidism.Recognised as a landmark of twentieth century intellectual history, I and Thou is Buber's masterpiece. In this book, his enormous learning and wisdom are distilled...

Kniha proslulého židovského filosofa Martina Bubera (1878–1965) Příběhy rabiho Nachmana vyšla poprvé v r. 1906. Jde o výběr výroků a tvůrčí převyprávění části příběhů z původní textové sbírky Sipurej ma‘asijot, tradující výroky, příběhy a pohádky rabiho Nachmana z Braclavi (1772–1810), zakladatele jedné z předních chasidských škol.

Úvod knihy tvoří významný esej o židovské mystice a jejím chasidském „rouchu“ ze školy r. Nachmana, v němž Buber podává své rané postřehy a názory na toto téma. Židovská mystika...

Filosof náboženství a pedagog Martin Buber (1878–1964) se stal známým také německým překladem Bible, na němž spolupracoval s F. Rosenzweigem. Tuto práci provázely jednak rozsáhlejší články věnující se biblickému bádání, jednak kratší eseje, přednášky a pojednání, jež podává tato kniha. Autor se v nich zamýšlí nad ústředními biblickými idejemi, objasňuje tradiční i svá východiska jejich výkladu a pojednává o nich také v rámci znovunalezení Ducha v životě moderního člověka.

Jeho výpovědi naléhají na změnu myšlení,...