Abstract

Martin Buber has a very particular way of understanding language. He stands at a “crossroad”. He enables a mystic answer to Fritz Mauthner’s problems related to language. On the other hand, he uses Wilhelm Dilthey’s idea of “inner experience” in order to do that. We will try to show how his answer to both authors is the basis for his dialogical philosophy. Two aspects of Buber’s philosophy will be taken into account in order to see his “Philosophy of Language” in action: Buber’s rhetoric, according to P. Mendes-Flohr, and his own hermeneutics according to S. D. Kepnes.