The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics

The Place of Philosophical Dialogue among the Literary forms of Philosophy.........6
Conversation and Dialogue: Historical and Fictional Dialogue ........19
On the Relationship between form and Content in the Philosophical Dialogue ............48
1. The Production of Philosophical Dialogue
The Stages of the Philosophical Dialogue`s Historical Development ........71
Social Presupposition and Obstacles ....131
The Problem of Authorial Intention .........136
2. The Universe of the Philosophical Dialogue
Individual Dialogues and Groups of Dialogues ......155
Introductory Taxonomy.: Direct, Indirect and Mixed Dialogues ........163
The Model and Ontological Status of the Literary Universe .....185
The Space of Conversation ........210
The Time of Conversation .......237
The Number of Person in the Conversation ...258
The Initial Conditions of Conversation .....290
The Goal of Conversation : learning from Versus Learning About- Dissent, consensus, aporia .......331
The Ethics of Conversation ........374
The Logic of Conversation .........406
The Aesthetics of the Dialogue.......430
3. The Reception of the Philosophical Dialogue
Conversation between Different Dialogic Universes.......443
Conversation Between Author and Reader .............458