This article offers an alternative reading of Martin Buber (1878–1956), one guided by his writings on craft and artistic creation. Rather than view Buber as a philosopher of dialogue, it views him as a philosopher of relationships, including relationships to nonhuman things. His writings on craft and artistic creation are taken to exemplify these nonhuman relationships. After sketching out the general structure of Buber’s thought, and the role that nonhuman relationships play in it, this article traces a trajectory through Buber’s work, showing the ever-increasing importance of these relationships through an analysis of his treatments of art and craft. It ends with an analysis of his late anthropological work on craft and images, which demonstrates that this was a longstanding, if not central, concern of Buber’s that guided not only his treatment of material things, but his understanding of Judaism as well.

本文提供了马丁·布伯（Martin Buber，1878–1956年）的另一种读物，该书以他的手工艺和艺术创作为指导。与其将布伯视为对话哲学家，不如将布伯视为关系哲学家，包括与非人类事物的关系。他关于手工艺和艺术创作的著作被用来例证这些非人类的关系。在勾勒出布伯思想的一般结构以及非人际关系在其中的作用后，本文通过布伯的工作追踪了一条轨迹，通过分析他对艺术品和手工艺的处理，显示了这些关系的日益重要的意义。最后以对他后期关于工艺和图像的人类学工作的分析为基础，这表明这是一个长期的，甚至不是中心的，