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[Association Copy] I and Thou

Buber, Martin; Smith, Ronald Gregor (Translator); [Elisabeth Rotten]

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937.

First edition in English. Bound in publisher's tan printed wraps, Near Fine with toning and light creases. Laid in are two typed signed letters from the translator sent at the suggestion of Martin Buber to his close friend, activist and education progressive Elisabeth Rotten, seeking her help to polish up the translation of this text into English.

Rotten was a co-founder of the New Education Fellowship, which held international conferences at two-year intervals presided over by distinguished educationists and pedagogue. It worked to connect lay enthusiasts for educational reform with major figures in the developing disciplines of psychology and education, such as Carl Gustav Jung, Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget and John Dewey. Together, Buber and Rotten founded the journal Das Werende Zeitalter (Developing Age), which became an important means of communication for the NEF. Buber was interested in education and originally saw it as a means to transmit the truth of relationships, though soon realized there was no effective means to impart such understandings. Item #140941158

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