Distance and Relation in Martin Buber

An excerpt from Saying You: An Introduction to Martin Buber by Simon James Brady. The twofold movement Note on language: Buber wrote Mensch — the human being, the species — and his English translators rendered it "man". The convention was unremarkable then and is not now. However, I have left the quotations as they stand, and my own prose follows them. The alternative was a text that switched…