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The Dialogue Society invites papers introducing a ‘dialogue thinker’ of the author’s choice. The thinker may come from any field. He/she must have made a significant contribution to ideas about dialogue, and these ideas must be to some extent transferable to fields beyond the thinker’s own specialism.
While the meaning of ‘dialogue’ is an open question, the focus of the book will be on ‘live’ dialogue in the sense of actual interaction between people. If an author wishes to propose a thinker who has focused on written dialogue he/she will need to bring out the significance of that thinker’s ideas for ‘live’ dialogue. Authors are asked to keep in mind the question of how the thinker’s ideas relate to the practice of dialogue in different spheres (for instance, community dialogue on political issues, intercultural dialogue, interfaith dialogue).
The ‘thinker’ may be a practitioner who has not necessarily written extensively on his/her ideas on dialogue, but in such a case the author of the paper must plausibly extract coherent principles from the subject’s practice.
‘Dialogue’ as used here is not intended to refer exclusively or primarily to dialogue concerning religious faith, or to dialogue between people of religious faith. The editors do not wish to place any such restrictions on the content or participants of dialogue.
The editors have very open minds as to the thinkers that might be included. Some of the possibilities that emerged in research for the first volume and in subsequent discussions are:
In the interests of balance, editors will have a particular interest in thinkers from cultural, ideological and intellectual backgrounds not represented in the first volume.