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| | Martin Buber on religiosity |
 | | Martin Buber In contrast to Abraham Heschel, Martin Buber grew up as a modern man. He was well-read, well-traveled, and influenced by Kierkegaard and the existentialist thought of his time. |
 | | So, while at first, Buber's placement of the individual in the center of the world, and his use of terms such as freedom, choice and individuality reminds one of a vocabulary used to describe the liberal individual that dominates present Western thought (namely, the "unencumbered self"), he could not be farther from that position. |
 | | Buber's "I and Thou"-relationship is one for the experience of which he prepares the reader, and it requires a first leap of faith, or courage, we shall say, to believe that it might be worth a try. |
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