ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses dialogues as a method of intercultural philosophy and addresses how this relates to other methods of intercultural- and comparative-philosophy. Based on a book Kimmerle wrote with Hans van Rappard on African and Chinese philosophies in dialogue, it explores the method, possibility and effectiveness of these dialogues. Following it makes this concrete by reflecting on the content of intercultural dialogues between Western and African philosophers and illustrates this with dialogues about the concept of ‘time’, in which among others the work of Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Mogobe Ramose and Achille Mbembe will be addressed and related to the concept of time by Heidegger. The chapter concludes with dialogue as Kimmerle’s specific method of intercultural philosophy and discusses how this can enhance and/or impede epistemic justice in philosophy.
