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The Improbable Yet Necessary Dialogue
2002 •
Ammar Abdulhamid
This is not simply an essay on intellectuals, their role and the dialogue that they need to champion, but an attempt by a young and aspiring ME “intellectual” to present his own personal views and his own personal critique of the way things are in the world today.
'Conversation and Common Ground' (Philosophical Studies, 2017)
Mitch Green
This is a pre-publication draft of an article slated to appear in _Philosophical Studies_ as part of a book symposium on R. Stalnaker's _Context_ (OUP, 2014). Abstract: Stalnaker’s conception of context as common ground (what he calls CG-context) possesses unquestionable explanatory power, shedding light on presupposition, presupposition accommodation, the behavior of certain types of conditionals, epistemic modals, and related phenomena. The CG-context approach is also highly abstract, so merely pointing out that it fails to account for an aspect of communication is an inconclusive criticism. Instead our question should be whether it can be extended or modified to account for such a phenomenon while preserving its spirit. To that end, this essay assesses the prospects of the CG-context approach for making sense of the variety of ways in which interlocutors accept propositions as well as non-propositional contents, some different types of conversation and the norms distinctive of these different types, some pre-illocutionary pragmatic phenomena, conversational injustice, and fictional discourse.
(mit Jarmila Mildorf) „Mapping Imaginary Dialogues in America“, in: Imaginary Dialogues in American Literature and Philosophy: Beyond the Mainstream, eds. Till Kinzel and Jarmila Mildorf, Heidelberg: Winter, 2014, 9-25.
Till Kinzel
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
CONVERSATION: The History That Did Not Come to Pass
2018 •
Naeem Mohaiemen
Conversation with Sarah Lookofsky
Dialogues in Human Geography
The possibilities and limits to dialogue
Lauren Rickards
Contemporary Theatre Review
A Conversation about Dialogue (SymposiumVoices)
2011 •
Stephen Bottoms
The American Journal of Semiotics
The Fulcrum Point of Dialogue: Monologue, Worldview, and Acknowledgement
2012 •
Ronald C Arnett
Three privileged and related communicative presuppositions shape and buttress this dialogic essay: (1) identity is sculpted by and through the existential reality of difference; (2) petite narratives give rise to differences that propel a monologic demand for worldview acknowledgement; and (3) one’s worldview dwells first in monologue, second in acknowledgement, and third in potential changes as one encounters the worldview of another. In an era described as postmodernity (Lyotard 1984), there resides one fundamental challenge to that which undergirds modernity — rejection of the assumption that there is universal access to Truth through a pristine and transcendental use of rationality. "is hope is abandoned by postmodern writers (Lyotard 1984; Derrida 1978), and is even modified in its application by some of the Enlightenment’s most ardent proponents, such as Jürgen Habermas (1962, 1984, 1987). Postmodernity is a juncture with a distinct and unique existential reality defining a shadow cast by one temporally privileged fact — there is no one set of universal assumptions that constitute our communicative lives of understanding ensembles. In postmodernity, we are left with the existential reality of multiple petite narratives that steer discourse quite dissimilarly.
Policy Futures in Education
The paradox of dialogue
2011 •
Peter Murphy
The Council of Europe's 2008 White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue signalled - with a measure of deep concern - the limits of multiculturalism and its attendant problems of identity politics, communal segregation, and the undermining of rights and freedoms in culturally closed communities. The White Paper proposed the replacement of the policy of multiculturalism with a policy of intercultural dialogue. The article in response reflects on the paradoxical nature of all discursive models of dialogue, including that of the Council of Europe, and suggests in its place a dramaturgical model of dialogue. All forms of dialogue that rely on discursive interaction run into the problem of incommensurable values, principles and ultimate authorities. From Weber and Kelsen to Castoriadis and Lyotard, this problem has been well assayed. It is not surmountable by the length, relative intensity or presumptive civility of a dialogue. Neither 'willingness to listen' nor 'open-mindedness' - let alone 'debate' and 'argument' - can solve the deep, difficult aporias of fundamental value conflicts. Nor can appeals to human rights, democracy and the rule of law, though the Council of Europe believes otherwise. We live in a world where liberal values of these kinds are routinely contested by militant pre-enlightenment communities. Dialogue can make no substantive difference to this. What then can? Historically and structurally, patrimonial cultures are only transformed under dramaturgical conditions. The article explores how the modern society of strangers mobilizes role playing, public acting, dramatic dialogism and various types of social dramaturgy (afforded especially by the anonymous theatre of its cities, markets and publics), and causes thereby the ironic incorporation or else the gradual withering-away of patrimonies, patriarchies and other kinds of pre-enlightenment communities.
Introduction: Dialogue as Discourse and Interaction
Fernanda Pena
Global Dialogue Conference 2009
Philosophy and Politics of Dialogue
Hans Koechler
