Martin Buber's Journey to Presence (Abrahamic Dialogues)

What does Martin Buber mean, in I and Thou, by the claim that the one thing that matters is full acceptance of presence? In a journey of exploration through Buber’s early writings, especially his first major philosophical work, Daniel: Dialogues in Realization, Huston seeks to clarify Buber’s predialogical concept of God. Buber’s desire for presence, she finds, began with an overwhelming experience of absence, a search for a presence that will not let him down, that will not be a “mis-encounter.”This book is an invaluable guide to Buber’s early writings. It will help readers to understand the rich depth and many layers of thought in Buber’s masterpiece, I and Thou, and to appreciate the radical change that took place in Buber’s concept of God prior to its publication in 1923.