Ich und Du
I and Thou
Martin Buber · 1878–1965
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A short book in numbered aphoristic sections distinguishing two ways of standing toward the world: I–It, which uses and knows things, and I–Thou, the whole-hearted meeting with another, in which God is the eternal Thou. Its prose is compressed and sometimes oracular, but its central distinction passed into theology, education and therapy. In copyright: information only here.