Le dialogue interculturel dans la perspective européenne

Résumé (en anglais)

Value-purpose and value-means, the intercultural dialogue is often viewed as the best able discursive strategy to lead to cohesion, creativity, peace, even to collective survival. This way to relate to the Other is based on a series of ethical norms, the priority being frequently assigned to recognition, which is a notion to be worked on several "level" assumptions. The disrespect of these "levels of recognition", which is due, for instance, to the incapacity of setting free from one's own cultural conditioning, could account for the failure of dialogue, this failure being probably responsible for the appeal to the opposite solution, namely the violence, in order to settle disputes.