The Philosophical Dialogue

H sle's latest publication is highly recommended, especially for its superb research and intelligently written subject matter. --Catholic Library World This book will enthrall any who have found the genre of philosophical and theological texts to be of interest and importance, and it will assist anyone wishing better to understand the pragmatics and deictic variables and import of different kinds of philosophical and theological dialogue. --Modern Theology Convincingly translated into English by Steven Rendall, a richly stimulating and documented survey is now made widely accessible. . . . a suggestive and authoritative study. The reader is drawn into the potentialities of dialogue--which may, in turn, define reading itself. --Times Literary Supplement--Jean Grondin, University of Montreal Convincingly translated into English by Steven Rendall, a richly stimulating and documented survey is now made widely accessible. . . . a suggestive and authoritative study. The reader is drawn into the potentialities of dialogue--which may, in turn, define reading itself. --Times Literary Supplement With its exceptionally clear and powerful argumentation, the book might become the defining work for the study of dialogue. Paraphrasing Kant, one could say that in philosophy mere theory without a history is empty, while history without a theory is blind. Yet in his work H sle achieves a unique synthesis of historical perceptivity and systematic rigor. This book will be read for many years to come. --Dmitri Nikulin, New School for Social Research The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics contains four veritable monographs on its four main authors, Plato, Cicero, Hume, and Diderot. The book is well-written and never becomes pedantic; it manifests philological enthusiasm and an intimate knowledge of the connections in the whole area dealt with by this book. --Reinhard Brandt, University of Marburg