I and Thou - Softcover

Martin Buber

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ISBN 10: 0567223388 ISBN 13: 9780567223388

Publisher: T. & T. CLARK, 1979

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"If one approaches 'I and Thou' as a philosophic essay, trying to reconstruct an argument and testing that, it is hard not to criticise the book. But if instead of examining the book as an object, an It, we open our hearts to it to hear what it has to say to us, we are confronted with a crucial question: if God is to mean something to us, can it be anything but what Buber suggests in this little book, namely das ewige Du (the eternal Thou)? All superstitions about God, all talk about him, all theology is sacrificed to the voice that speaks to us, the Du to which some cry out 'when', as Goethe says, 'man in his agony grows mute.' And not only in agony." Walter Kaufmann in 'The Philosophy of Martin Buber'

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