Martin Buber believed that life's deepest truth lies in human relationships. In this classic work he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society.

SECTION ONE: DESCRIPTION

Original Remembrance
Silence which Is Communication
Opinions and the Factual
Disputations in Religion
Setting of the Question
Observing, Looking On, Becoming Aware
The Signs
A Conversion
Who Speaks?
Above and Below
Responsibility
Morality and Religion

SECTION TWO: LIMITATIONS

The Realms
The Basic Movements
The Wordless Depths
Of Thinking
Eros
Community

SECTION THREE: CONFIRMATION

Conversation with the Opponent

II THE QUESTION TO THE SINGLE ONE ( Die Frage an den Einzelnen, 1936)

The "Unique One" and the Single One
The Single One and His Thou
The Single One and the Body Politic
The Single One and Responsibility
Attempts at Severance
The Question

III EDUCATION ( Rede über das Erzieherische,1926)

An address to the Third International Educational Conference, Heidelberg, August 1925, whose subject was "The Development of the Creative Powers in the Child"

IV THE EDUCATION OF CHARACTER (Über Charaktererziehung, 1939)

An address to the National Conference of Palestinian Teachers, Tel Aviv, 1939
V WHAT IS MAN? (Was ist der Mensch? 1938)
SECTION ONE: THE PROGRESS OF THE QUESTION
I: Kant's Questions
II: From Aristotle to Kant
III: Hegel and Marx IV: Feuerbach and Nietzsche

SECTION TWO: MODERN ATTEMPTS

I: The Crisis and Its Expression
II: The Doctrine of Heidegger
III: The Doctrine of Scheler
IV: Prospect
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES
AFTERWORD: The History of the Dialogical Principle
INDEX