Franz Rozenzweig called one of the concepts introduced in this work a "cripple", while translator Walter Kauffman called it a "Manichean insult", and that "primary word" "can never be spoken with the whole being", unlike the title concept.
This work tells of some "queer lyric-dramatic episodes" in a "world in which one has to live and also can live comfortably", and argues that because "it is not as if God could be inferred from anything," reason cannot get one close to God. Franz Rozenzweig called one of the concepts introduced in this work a "cripple", while translator Walter Kauffman called it a "Manichean insult", and that "primary word" "can never be spoken with the whole being", unlike the title concept. For 10 points, name this work in which the "I-It" relationship is contrasted with the title relationship, the best known work of Martin Buber.
This work tells of some "queer lyric-dramatic episodes" in a "world in which one has to live and also can live comfortably", and argues that because "it is not as if God could be inferred from anything," reason cannot get one close to God.
{Ich und du} or {I and Thou}