Instrumental dialogue and the ethics of expressing solicitude for each other’s existence

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-02-06 DOI:10.1075/ld.00138.ben

Nicolas Bencherki, Coline Sénac

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Abstract

Dialogue is about forgoing control and possession when interacting with the Other. In comparison, the notion of instrumentality appears contrary to the very notion of dialogue. This paper suggests, however, that mutual instrumentalization is necessary for dialogue to be a space where participants express solicitude for each other and promote each other’s voice, action, and existence. Building on the work of French philosopher Étienne Souriau, we argue that promoting another’s existence requires taking their actions and speech into our own. This enables them to also exist through us as we allow them to instrumentalize us. Such a view better accounts for what goes on in tangible dialogue situations, as we show by revisiting an empirical case. Our proposal extends current research on the conditions of productive dialogue, invites being careful about who or what populates the dialogical scene, and turns our attention to what they may need to pursue their existence.

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工具对话与关怀存在的伦理

对话是关于在与他人互动时放弃控制和占有。相比之下，工具性的概念似乎与对话的概念相反。然而，本文认为，为了使对话成为一个参与者相互关心、促进彼此声音、行动和存在的空间，相互工具化是必要的。在法国哲学家Étienne Souriau的工作基础上，我们认为，促进他人的存在需要将他们的行为和言论融入我们自己。这使他们也能够通过我们存在，因为我们允许他们将我们工具化。正如我们通过重新审视一个经验案例所表明的那样，这种观点更好地解释了在有形对话情况下发生的事情。我们的建议扩展了目前对富有成效的对话条件的研究，请小心对话场景中的人物或内容，并将我们的注意力转向他们追求生存可能需要什么。

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期刊介绍： In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.