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Martin Buber's I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue

1 review
Kenneth Paul Kramer

Paulist Press, 2004

A Classic Companion
Martin Buber's I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue is an excellent introduction and overview of Buber's I and Thou. Kenneth Kramer is extremely readable and conveys complex ideas in a manner that allows the reader to grasp the concepts with much more facility. Through the use of illustrations, referencing other work by Buber, side by side exerpts of Smith's and Kaufmann's translations, and ...

Death Dreams: Unveiling Mysteries of the Unconscious Mind

1 review
Kenneth Paul Kramer

Paulist Press, 1992

A good survey
I liked the scope of this book. Each chapter covered a different angle on death and dreams of death. This is all interspersed with dreams of Kramer's students from a college course. These are some of the most intriguing and fresh. This book does give up depth in it's attempts to cover so many angles--religious, philosophical, literary, psychological, shamanic... Also, Kramer basically ...

Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

3 reviews
Kenneth Paul Kramer

Cowley Publications, 2007

An excellent guide to Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is one of the most difficult and obscure poems ever written. Kenneth Paul Kramer's Redeeming Time is an excellent guide to understanding the poem's hidden meanings. The author has devoted more than thirty-five years to Eliot's masterpiece: he wrote his Ph D. thesis on Four Quartets, made numerous research trips to all four locations of the titles to each poem, taught ...