ABSTRACT
Assessing the Argument Buber’s inventive division of human existence into two modes, the I-It and the I-Thou, is clearly framed within I and Thou from the very first page. Most of the book is concerned with Buber’s elaboration on this division and the various ways it applies to different spheres of human life, such as the political or the religious. As mentioned in previous modules, however, Buber made a conscious decision while drafting the book to avoid a systematic presentation. Instead the text is broken down into short aphorisms, and written in style somewhere between prose and poetry. As a result, Buber does not directly reference or converse with other philosophers or scholars in the book, in the way one would expect of a more conventional academic work.
