This study of the philosophy of Martin Buber is based on his writings Dialogisches Leben, 1947, Die Schriften ueber des Dialogische Prinzip, 1954, Urdistanz und Beziehung, 1960, Eclipse of God, 1952, Israel and the World, 1948, and Moses, 1947. References to Ich und Du follow the pagination of the original Insel Verlag edition of 1923.
The contents of the volumes, Eclipse of God, Israel and the World, Moses, were accessible to us only in the English versions. Most quotations from the otherworks are from the translations by Ronald Gregor Smith, from the volumes I and Thou, second edition, and Between Man and Man. Only occasionally did we depart from his translation or indicated, in parenthesis, a more adequate rendering of the German original.
In the notes, the Eclipse of God is quoted as Eclipse; Israel and the World, as Israel; Die Schriften ueber das Dialogische Prinzip, as Die Schriften.