I and Thou (CD-Audio)

from adamtarn

As the translator's preface says in this edition, this needs to be read like you would a poem because indeed it is a poem. Hence it must be read more than once. In fact, you could probably read it multiple times over the course of your life and never truly master it. And rightfully so. It is not ...

from the_awesome_opossum

"Every real relation with a being or life in the world is exclusive. Its Thou is freed, steps forth, is single, and confronts you. It fills the heavens. This does not mean that nothing else exists; but all else lives in its light. As long as the presence of the relation continues, this its cosmic...

from adamtarn

As the translator's preface says in this edition, this needs to be read like you would a poem because indeed it is a poem. Hence it must be read more than once. In fact, you could probably read it multiple times over the course of your life and never truly master it. And rightfully so. It is not ...

from AniArnott

I first read I and Thou when I was 13 and trying to find my pack; his central idea formed me for life, and if I had not read any other book, I would still have become a better person from this one.

from MistahKurtz

It's hard to say whether I liked it or not. Question is really: did I understand it? This is possibly once of Buber's most accessible books, and yet...I spent three hours trying to get through the first ten pages of his work (not the introduction, whihc takes up almost a third of this slim volume...