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Ich und Du

I and Thou

Martin Buber · 1878–1965

1923GermanyGermanFaith

Librarian’s score8.3Claude · AI

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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.

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