Lewis R. Gordon

There Must Be YOU

History & Biography

“River Adams has written a beautiful and thought-provoking intellectual and spiritual portrait of my dear former colleague, Leonard Swidler, whose efforts to become 'an intellectual and a saint' have affected the world of scholarship and quest for peace in enormous yet humbling ways. This wonderful narrative unfolds with the poetic and ambiguous force of grace as Adams offers insights into Swidler's precious world of dialogue, which, for him, has all the relational force of Buber's understanding of what it means to transform others into the infinite and infinitesimal you.”