ABSTRACT
In contrast to Jean-Paul Sartre’s perspective, critique of dialogic reason is critique in terms of dialogism and involves critique of the logic of Identity—a binary oppositional logic that still dominates Western thought and praxis. Global semiotics together with philosophy and the human sciences that challenge membership, genealogies, and alibis that limit responsibility toward the other, all contribute to a critique of monologism. The human being develops in social contexts relatedly to the experiences of others and never in isolation. The self is a community of dialogically interrelated selves and as such is subject to logic of alterity. Responsible living implies listening and hospitality toward difference, toward the other constitutive of self and beyond self. The extracommunitarian appears every time a community is formed—whether religious, sexual, racial, cultural, linguistic, political, economic, social, giuridical, as opposed to what the community identifies with and to the prerequisites for identification.
