Learning to Converse: Reflections on a Small Experiment

This essay offers some informal reflections on the experience of dialogue between Indian and Western philosophers during the period in which Daya Krishna made his own contribution to the Indian tradition. In particular it looks at how the conditions for such dialogue are compromised by the colonial relationship and its postcolonial repercussions, and at how the problem of philosophical heteronomy may be overcome through the willingness of both partners in the dialogue to accept the possibility of correction by a different perspective.