Dialogical philosophy
Martin Buber
1878 – 1965
I–Thou against I–It: the difference between meeting a person and processing one. Resonance is audible in exactly that difference.
Read alongside: Stay · Sense
- Start with
- I and Thou (1923)
- Where they resist the book
- Buber holds that genuine meeting cannot be produced deliberately. Any practice that schedules it risks turning Thou back into It.
Works worth the time
I and Thou · 1923
The difference between meeting a person and handling one. Short, and deliberately hard to skim.
Read further
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Martin Buber ↗
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Where Buber appears
III. SensePhilosophy
Understanding is participation, not extraction.
Gadamer's fusion of horizons refuses the idea of a neutral observer: you understand a situation by entering it and letting it revise you. Polanyi's tacit knowing accounts for what a practitioner sees but cannot yet articulate — the knowledge that arrives as unease before it arrives as words.