ABSTRACT
Uses and Problems In the first decades after the publication of I and Thou, much of Buber’s work was committed to making what he called “additions” in “independent form” to it.1 These were collected and published in 1947 as Between Man and Man and included essays developing Buber’s notion of dialogue and his philosophical anthropology, particularly in a long essay entitled “What Is Man?”2 The latter is an interesting development of the anthropological insights of I and Thou. Writen in a more conventional academic fashion, it takes the form of direct conversations with the views of other philosophers, including Kant, Marx, and Nietzsche. Still at the heart of these discussions, however, was, as Buber later put it, “the close connexion of the relation to God with the relation to one’s fellow man.”3
