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. Foreword ix Introduction xi Maurice Friedman Dialogue (Zwiesprache, 1929) 1(45) Description 1(21) Original remembrance 1(2) Silence which is communication 3(2) Opinions and the factual 5(2) Disputations in religion 7(2) Setting of the question 9(1) Observing, looking on, becoming aware 10(2) The signs 12(3) A conversion 15(2) Who speaks? 17(1) Above and below 18(1) Responsibility 18(2) Morality and religion 20(2) Limitation 22(17) The realms 22(3) The basic movements 25(3) The wordless depths 28(2) Of thinking 30(3) Eros 33(2) Community 35(4) Confirmation 39(7) Conversation with the opponent 39(7) The Question to the Single One (Die Frage an den Einzelnen, 1936) 46(94) The ``unique one'' and the single one 46(12) The single one and his thou 58(9) The single one and the body politic 67(9) The single one in responsibility 76(7) Attempts at severance 83(10) The question 93(5) Education (Rede uber 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'' 98(25) The Education of Character (Uber Charaktererziehung, 1939) An address to the National Conference of Palestinian Teachers, Tel-Aviv, 1939 123(17) What is Man? (Was ist der Mensch? 1938) 140(105) The Progress of the Question 140(46) Kant's questions 140(10) From Aristotle to Kant 150(13) Hegel and Marx 163(10) Feuerbach and Nietzsche 173(13) Modern Attempts 186(59) The crisis and its expression 186(7) The doctrine of Heidegger 193(22) The doctrine of Scheler 215(21) Prospect 236(9) Translator's Notes 245(4) Afterword: The History of the Dialogical Principle 249(16) Index 265