Dialogue, Dasein, and Destiny: Heidegger’s Challenge to Dialogical Comparative Political Theory

Abstract This article critically assesses the influence of Heidegger on “dialogical” school comparative political theory, and in particular writings Fred Dallmayr. In response to dialogical cpt ’s employment service democratic, egalitarian, cosmopolitan ends, this reconstructs Heidegger’s own projects intercultural dialogue as attempts awaken inegalitarian political-spiritual potential elect nations, such Germans, Greeks, Japanese against tide liberal modernity. Contra Dallmayr, analyzes unity treatment “authentic” dialogues his speeches lectures from 1933–34, 1941–2 lecture courses Hölderlin, semi-fictional between a German “Inquirer” “Japanese” 1950s. It outlines existence an illiberal Heideggerian concludes that scholars should reconceive their with one “other” egalitarian pluralism they seek promote.