Dialogue et système

We contrast the rationality of a system that connects everything to a single principle with philosophical dialogues and their shimmering array of real relationships. Yet, what becomes of our conception of reason if dialogue is not the opposite of the system, but its most adequate form? The book demonstrates how Schelling and, more explicitly, Karl Solger, conceive philosophical dialogue as an invitation to the reader to produce the system in the first person. The written dialogue, as an authentic "philosophical work of art," reveals and actualizes the system as life—as our life. However, Hegel came to declare this approach to be obsolete and inadequate to the essence of philosophy. By articulating these contrasting visions of dialogue, it is the very nature of philosophy, and not simply its form that is questioned here.