ABSTRACT
Position Martin Buber’s I and Thou “catapulted him to international fame”1 and is widely considered a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. Its themes and key terms, such as the “I-Thou relation,” have been absorbed into the broad intellectual culture of western society, as well as Jewish thought. However, it is precisely this level of familiarity that raises the question of whether, in the present day, Buber remains relevant or whether he has become merely an artefact of history.2
