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I And Thou

2017-03-12 
Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowle
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I And Thou

Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as one of its prophets.
The need for a new English translation has been felt for many years. The old version was marred by many inaccuracies and misunderstandings, and its recurrent use of the archaic "thou" was seriously misleading. Now Professor Walter Kaufmann, a distinguished writer and philosopher in his own right who was close to Buber, has retranslated the work at the request of Buber's family. He has added a wealth of informative footnotes to clarify obscurities and bring the reader closer to the original, and he has written a long "Prologue" that opens up new perspectives on the book and on Buber's thought. This volume should provide a new basis for all future discussions of Buber.

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书本身是本好书,就是纸质没想到这么差,感觉一点都不值这个价钱,纸质发黄,不知道什么原因,

不错,四星吧,一分扣在封面褪色了,不过不影响内容

这本书是很不错的,但是比较难看懂。

英文版,看起来还是蛮吃力的!

My daughter, a teacher, has her degree in Philosophy, and I picked this up at her urging.

I think that I understand more now, about why people teach. The subject of learning is just the "It" in Buber's notation. What is important is the "Ich / Du" moment, which is not the "It", and which must be experienced. Buber connects the Ich/Du with a primordial drawing together of personality. Extrapolating from Buber, in my own "nachgedanken", that foundation of personality forms some basis for our crude understanding of The Eternal, of Love and of Nature.

I approach the subject of Philosophy most humbly, confessing my ignorance. But Buber defines his terms from the outset and builds from there. Reading, I felt myself in the presence of a thoughtful, universally kind instructor. Perhaps he was hedged in a bit by the Judeo-Christian pre-war culture, but he was fighting to understand the "other", and I don't think he was talking down with respect Asian or African cultures, but was constrained by mere "book learning" of cultures which were both spacially and temporally displaced from his own.

My daughter thinks this isn't the best translation. If you know a little German, I recommend also getting a copy of "Ich und Du", which I am using to shed additional light on some passages.

If you are new to Philosophy, as I am, take a look at Buber as a great first read.

I love Martin Buber's language in describing relationships as either "I-Thou" or "I-It". I find this very helpful when working with groups to help them understand how subtle differences can quickly change the relationship and damage communications. While the concept is simple, the nuances and subtle issues in practice are certainly not and like all good human relations, requires a great deal of study, practice and more practice. With that in mind, this translation of the poetic original I-Thou by Buber needed more for me to understand and embrace it more fully. To that end, I found Kenneth Paul Kramer's "Martin Buber's I and Thou; Practicing Living Dialogue" to be a very good companion resource.

Even though I was late in discovering this great masterpiece of philosophical/poetic/spiritual inspiration (1962), I immediately was drawn to it, and it changed my whole life. Since then I've read everything written by Buber and many of the books and essays written about him. I wrote a master's thesis on his work. I don't think I can even count the number of times I've read "I and Thou" and so I was extremely excited to finally find a version available in eBook format. This book is prophetic in immediately getting to the deep cause of all the problems of the 20th century, long before Nazi Germany became the embodiment of that cause. Buber not only anticipated the rise of the Nazis but also suffered their early persecution, eventually having his family wealth stolen by them and deported by them.

Buber and a small number of spiritual giants have recognized the deep cause as a dualism at the base of modern civilization. One aspect of this dualism causes a person to develop a worldview based on being separated from everything else and incapable of forming a meaningful relationship with other forms in existence. The other aspect of the dualism allows a person to approach all of life as being in relationship and all connected.

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