ABSTRACT
Martin Buber's relationship to Søren Kierkegaard is particularly interesting for its ambivalence. On the one hand, Buber highlights Kierkegaard's emphasis on the person, in which he sees a significant contribution to founding his own dialogical philosophy, but, on the other hand, he accuses him of acosmism (absence of essential intersubjectivity), which Buber sees as in principle contradictory to dialogical thinking. Throughout the corpus of Buber's works and his correspondence we do not find a single reference to Kierkegaard's Works of Love, which is the key to understanding Kierkegaard's conception of the relationship between religion and ethics. These facts clearly underline the selectivity and inconsistency of Buber's reading and interpretation of Kierkegaard. The subject matter of the most extensive chapters of the book is Buber's criticism of Kierkegaard's "religious acosmism". Šajda devotes the fourth chapter to reactions to Buber's interpretation of Kierkegaard. In the final, fifth chapter the author familiarizes Slovak readers with the largely unknown pre-dialogical Buber.
