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...Martin Buber was ceaselessly driving throughout all his richly varied life and was never self-satisfied or complacement," Walter A. Kaufmann, professor of philosophy at Princeton University said yesterday in his keynote address at a symposium held in honor of Buber's hundredth birthday...
...Buber, who was a religious existentialist and a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, until his death in 1965, considered "I and Thou" his most important book. Kaufmann, who recently translated the work, said it is "flawed...
...book's "central dichotomy of I-thou and I-it would not have stood up to Buber's scrutiny," if he had not "mistaken intense emotion for revelation," Kaufmann said...
...could make superb use of any idea or thing. At Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, he put "secular saints" in the stained-glass windows: Albert Einstein, John Glenn, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber and others. Early in his episcopate he read that Duke Ellington had composed a sacred concert for jazz, and promptly arranged for the Duke to give its world premiere at the cathedral. Nobody asked Ellington to join any memorial service to the bishop. But when the Duke heard there would be such a gathering at St. Clement's Church in Manhattan, he came...
...after all, as ancient as the Diaspora. But Herzl alone took it from vision to plan to practicality. On the way he assumed the countenance and the stature of a prophet, sweeping all objections from his path. A feral magnetism began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with the glance of the Messiah." Freud claimed that he had seen Herzl in a dream before they met. Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs...