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The book is organised around several key moments, such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three, a foundational trauma that, Mendes-Flohr shows, left an enduring mark on Buber’s inner life, attuning him to the fragility of human relations and the need to nurture them with what he would call a “dialogical attentiveness.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuber’s philosophical and theological writings, most famously \u003ci\u003eI and Thou\u003c\/i\u003e, made significant contributions to religious and Jewish thought, philosophical anthropology, biblical studies, political theory, and Zionism. 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