Debating with others and with oneself

Abstract

In this contribution, an episode taken from filmic and narrative texts serves as a red thread to deal with training in debating with others and with oneself. This training distinguishes between, and at the same time unites – without solutions of continuity – the internal and external dialogicity of human communicative interactions. Therefore, this training recognises the endless circularity of relationality including, and above all, in the face of secrets, ‘vicissitudes’, reversals of scenarios, sudden recognitions and ironies. As a result, de-bating can and must become a constant formative engagement to fight injustice, including by learning to put oneself into other people’s shoes and, above all, by posing questions and ‘saying’ answers that are capable of dealing with perceptions and conceptions of words and their consequences