Martin Buber. A Life of Faith and Dissent

Lecture with Paul Mendes-Flohr of University of Chicago.

Update October 2: Please note new location for this lecture: Dey Hall, Toy Lounge

Martin Buber. A Life of Faith and Dissent

This lecture will focus on Buber’s concept of faith as life-long process in which one faces the existential ambiguities of interpersonal relations and the anguished realities of modern Jewish life.

Paul Mendes-Flohr  is a professor emeritus of modern Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and professor emeritus of Jewish intellectual history at the University of Chicago. He is co-editor of 26 volume critical edition of Martin Buber’s writings in German, and the author of a recently published biography of Martin Buber, published by Yale University Press.

October 28, 2019, 5:30p start time in Dey Hall, fourth floor Toy Lounge.  Directions/Parking.