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What Is Man? — Martin Buber

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What Is Man?

Das Problem des Menschen (Be'ayat ha-adam)

Retrato de Martin Buber
byMartin Buber

Buber's inaugural course at the Hebrew University (1938), published first in Hebrew (1942) and in German in 1948. It traces the history of philosophical anthropology (Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Scheler) and proposes locating the essence of man in the relation between person and person.

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Editions and translations

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English

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  • Das Problem des Menschen

    Lambert Schneider, 1948

Español

  • ¿Qué es el hombre?

    Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1990

    Translation: Eugenio Ímaz

    ISBN 9789505570867

Other works by Martin Buber

Sources

  • Wikipedia en alemán, «Martin Buber» (sección «Schriften»), contrastada con el catálogo de Open Library por autor.

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