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Résumé :
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It is now almost thirty-five years since. Ich und Du first appeared in Germany, and over twenty years since the first English edition. Since that time Martin Buber's work has become widely known in a great variety of fields. In the present book, as well as in later works which illustrate or add to it, he has something specific to many kinds of specialists: to educators, to doctors, to politicians, to sociologists, to biblical critics, even to poets, and certainly to theologians and philosophers.
In my original introduction I tried to express my awareness of a kind of revolutionary simplicity in the content of I and Thou. Many of the early readers shared that sense, so that some were even inclined to say that I and Thou, after all, was only saying what a candid reader might find in the primitive message of the New Testament, especially in the teaching of Jesus. There is this amount of truth in this view, that Buber, deeply immersed as he is in the concretion, the historical and dramatic forms of thinking characteristic of his Hebrew tradidition, has been able, both in Iand Thou and in many of his later writings, in some measure to recover and to express the unique force at work in the Christian tradition as well.
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