 As a result, the You emerges as that which remains out of reach (1912: 51f.). Love can only approximately represent the Other through symbolizations that reflect the Other’s life and actions. The incommensurability of the You, moreover, is what facilitates our individuation. All of this implies that love is not in itself an ultimate answer to anything, but it is the relationship that can either confuse or clarify our relationship with everything. Even the deepest kind of love cannot provide us with the ultimate meaning of our lives, but love is what makes the meaning of our lives legible (1912: 49). Susman’s ideas presciently articulate critical concerns that return in the work of Buber and Levinas. Buber’s I and Thou (1923) offers a strikingly similar description of the deep paradoxical structure of the otherness of self and other while Levinas’s insistence on the unbridgeable difference between myself and a structure of alterity constitutive for human existence shares its metaphysical and phenomenological concerns with Susman.