German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)
Martin Buber was a German Jewish philosopher and theologian who developed influential ideas about how people relate to each other and to God, emphasizing genuine dialogue and personal encounter. His work matters because it shaped modern thinking about human connection, spirituality, and ethics, and continues to influence philosophy, theology, and how we understand relationships today.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Top works
via Open Library + Wikidata
Martin Buber ( German: [ˈmaʁtiːn̩ ˈbuːbɐ] ; Hebrew: מרטין בובר; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.
Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. He produced writings about Zionism and worked with various bodies within the Zionist movement extensively over a nearly 50-year period spanning his time in Europe and the Near East. In 1923, Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Martin+Buber">Read more on Last.fm</a>
5 total works indexed
· 2015 · cited 72,756x
· 1997 · cited 47,587x
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
· 1986 · cited 37,491x
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
via Crossref · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).