Drawing from the works of Plato and more philosophers such as Bakhtin, Buber, Taylor, and Gadamer, this book explores the necessity of dialogue to being. It argues that dialogue is not just a form of communication, but it is the very conditio humana. It provides an account of dialogue and its role in philosophy, literature, and oral discourse.

Drawing from the works of Plato and more contemporary philosophers such as Bakhtin, Buber, Taylor, and Gadamer, On Dialogue explores the necessity of dialogue to being. Author Dmitri Nikulin argues that dialogue is not just a form of communication, but it is the very conditio humana. Nikulin provides a systematic account of dialogue and its role in philosophy, literature, and oral discourse.