ABSTRACT
Dialogue and democracy are terms that scatter meaning—and breed confusion— across various scholarly disciplines, domains of public discourse, and areas of human action. This is because “dialogue” and “democracy” fulfill different functions and have different significations depending on the context in which they appear and are activated. Needless to say, these terms cannot be confined to political science or political theory in any strict sense. In this chapter I approach them from at least four different points of reference, which will turn out to be closely related.
