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Article: Buber's middle way.(The Martin Buber Reader: Essential Writings)(Book Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- February 1, 2003
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THE MARTIN BUBER READER: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS. Edited by ASHER BIEMANN. Palgrave. 303 pp. $18.95 paper
The 1920s AND '30s were a time of intense intellectual ferment in Germany. Radical questioning was the order of the day in every domain of thought, including religion. Take, for example, the uncompromising debate that took place between the young Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann, a student of the great neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen and author of the formidable Philosophy of Judaism (1933). In his early work of 1935, Philosophy and Law, Strauss criticized Gumnann's attempt to understand Jewish philosophy as an aspect of "culture" rather than "law." For ...