...n fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may ... ... this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. . It has hitherto been eompa... ... has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context... ...consisted in his being simply a He, that is, an It, is disloyalty to the truth of the meeting with the Thou. There is, however, one Thou which neve... ...ch is constituted in the fulness of the relation of an I with a Thou. In truth, God may only be "addressed, not expressed." Put in anotht'r way, t... ... we have known about the mutual relation oj persons has been relegated in theories of knowledge tc a position subordinate to the contemplation of th... ...by asserting His Otherness alone, and do not realise at the same time the truth of His Presence in the relation of the Thou to the I, we are bound i... ...hesis of the ultimate reality of personal relations in its application to theories of the State, of marriage, of family life, and of economics. xi ...

...Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-sp...

...The primal natm:e of the effort to establish relation is already to be seen in the earliest and most confined stage. Before anything isolated can be perceived, timid glances mOve out into indistinct space, towards something indefinite; and in...