Comprendre l’autre. À propos du dialogue entre communautés d’interprétation

Questioning the specific nature of intercultural hermeneutics, this paper highlights the complexity of the definition of culture using the pluralism of interpretation communities. Going up to the conditions of understanding, both those generated by traditional hermeneutics or cognitive psychology, the will to understand the other can counter identity claims in favor of the dialogue in which the communities of interpretation are always already taken. Intercultural hermeneutics then allows, overcoming the opposition between universalism and relativism, to lead to practical, ethical and political dimensions of hermeneutics.