Introduction

Abstract

Dialogue and communication have today become central concepts in contemporary man’s effort to analyze and comprehend the major roots of conflict that threaten our twentieth-century world. Underlying all attempts at dialogue, however, is the presupposition that it is ontologically possible for men to reach one another and to communicate meaningfully. It is to this most basic question — of the possibility and the limits of interpersonal relationships — that various phenomenologies of intersubjectivity direct themselves.