Notes

  1. . Martin Buber, Between Man and Men, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (New York: Macmillan Co., 1965); I and Thou, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (Edinburgh: Clark, 1937).
  2. . Between Man and Man, p. 200.
  3. . Ibid.
  4. . See Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1969), and references cited therein.
  5. . For a different interpretation, see Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, trans. Willard K. Trask (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1959).
  6. . See, e.g., R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric A. Walker, and James Killian, Jr., Approaching the Benign Environment (University: University of Alabama Press,1970).
  7. . See, e.g., Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, trans. John Wilkinson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964).
  8. . It should he pointed out here that in fact human beings can relate only to parts of the environment at a given time. What is new in this relationship are both the possibility of interacting with large parts of the environment (e.g., whole river basin systems) and the collective way in which people are able to carry out this relationship because of technology. This means that, if the anthropological setting were examined in more detail, it would be necessary to try to understand how human beings can act collectively arid still retain their individuality. Buber discusses this question very briefly (Between Man and Man, p. 175) by introducing what he calls the “essential we.” He seems to be pointing to something like the old craft guilds or perhaps the way in which teams of scientists work together on an experiment. In any event, the essential claim being made here is that one can take arbitrarily large segments of the environment and see the “Thouness” manifested in those segments.
  9. . See, e.g., the essays in The Philosophy of Martin Buber, ed. Paul A. Schilpp and Maurice Friedman (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Press, 1967).
  10. . I and Thou, p. 112.
  11. . In Philosophy of Religion and Theology: 1971, ed. David Griffin (Chambersburg, Pa.: American Academy of Religion, 1971), pp. 150–65.