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Foreword

This book arises out of lectures which I gave at several Amer-
ican universities (Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago and
others) in the months of November and December, 1951. I
have placed first, as an appropriate prelude, the “Report on
Two Talks” which I wrote in 1932, and I have also included
the essay “The Love of God and the Idea of Deity,” written
in 1943. In the section “Religion and Philosophy” I have used
some passages from the address on this subject with which
I opened the 1929 session of the Schopenhauer Society at
Frankfurt a. M., devoted to this theme.
“Report on Two Talks,” “Religion and Philosophy,” “Reli-
gion and Modern Thinking,” “On the Suspension of the Eth-
ical,” “God and the Spirit of Man” and the supplement “Reply
to C. G. Jung” were translated by Maurice S. Friedman. “Re-
ligion and Ethics” was translated by Eugene Kamenka and
Maurice S. Friedman. “Religion and Reality” was translated by
Norbert Guterman. “The Love of God and the Idea of Deity”
was translated by I. M. Lask, and is reprinted from my book
entitled Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis, copy-
right, 1948; a Shocken Book, Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.,
publishers, and reprinted with their permission.

Martin Buber

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