title: The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics
author:  Vittorio Hsle 
description: "Convincingly translated into English by Steven Rendall, a richly stimulating and documented survey is now made widely accessible. . . . a suggestive and authoritative study. The reader is drawn into the potentialities of dialoguewhich may, in turn, define reading itself." (Times Literary Supplement)<br /><br />Hsles latest publication is highly recommended, especially for its superb research and intelligently written subject matter. (Catholic Library World)<br /><br />"<i>The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics</i> contains four veritable monographs on its four main authors, Plato, Cicero, Hume, and Diderot. The book is well-written and never becomes pedantic; it manifests philological enthusiasm and an intimate knowledge of the connections in the whole area dealt with by this book." (Reinhard Brandt, University of Marburg)<br /><br />This book will enthrall any who have found the genre of philosophical and theological texts to be of interest and importance, and it will assist anyone wishing better to understand the pragmatics and deictic variables and import of different kinds of philosophical and theological dialogue. (Modern Theology)<br /><br />"With its exceptionally clear and powerful argumentation, the book might become the defining work for the study of dialogue. Paraphrasing Kant, one could say that in philosophy mere theory without a history is empty, while history without a theory is blind. Yet in his work Hsle achieves a unique synthesis of historical perceptivity and systematic rigor. This book will be read for many years to come." (Dmitri Nikulin, New School for Social Research)<br /><br />Convincingly translated into English by Steven Rendall, a richly stimulating and documented survey is now made widely accessible. . . . a suggestive and authoritative study. The reader is drawn into the potentialities of dialoguewhich may, in turn, define reading itself. Times Literary Supplement (Jean Grondin, University of Montreal)
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  **‘I want you,’ Vittorio confessed raggedly, ‘so much. Come back to the castle
  with me. Make love to me, Ana.’**  
    
  
  
  _Love._ Ana couldn’t keep the smile from her voice. ‘Again?’  
    
  
  
  ‘You think once—or twice—is enough?’  
    
  
  
  She could hardly believe he wanted her so much. It shook her to her very
  bones, the heart of herself. ‘No, definitely not,’ she murmured.  
    
  
  
  ‘Come back—’  
    
  
  
  ‘No. Not at the castle, Vittorio. Here.’  
    
  
  
  He stared down at the dusty ground of the vineyard. ‘Here?’ he repeated
  dubiously.  
    
  
  
  ‘Yes,’ Ana said firmly, tugging on his hand. ‘Here.’ Here, where he’d found
  her desirable—sexy—even in her work clothes with her wind-tangled hair. Here,
  where she’d felt safe and heaven-bound all at once, and wanted to again, in
  Vittorio’s arms. Here, because among the grapes and the soil she was her real
  self, not the woman who wore fancy dresses and high heels and tried to seduce
  her husband with tricks she couldn’t begi