Buber's early essays on Judaism set forth with marked clarity the concern for personal wholeness, for the realization of truth in life, and for the joining of spirit and of basic life energies which consistently appears in all of his later writings and determines, as much as any other element of his thought, his attitude toward evil. (religion-online.org)
Consisting in part of earlier essays, the book ranges over a broad swath of bioethical issues, from the beginning to the end of life, with a particular interest in the moral trajectory of science and technology, reproductive biology, and genetics. (religion-online.org)
He would significantly rework several earlier essays in the 1960s and beyond, but never backed down from his notorious rigidity: a principled avant - garde held aloft one end of the seesaw, ignoble kitsch slumped heavily on the other. (pelicanbomb.com)