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Reciprocity in hypermodern dialogue

ABSTRACT Gilles Lipovetsky (2004/2008) termed the current moment ‘hypermodernity,’ which combines postmodern and modern characteristics. In this moment, consumption and “acceleration” shape and form human communication across a multitude of spaces and places, allowing for miscommunication, misinterpretation, and incivility, among many other communicative practices. In the hypermodern condition, dialogic ethics offers an approach to understanding and meeting the challenges associated with human communication. In considering these challenges, this essay explores several central questions: what is ethical communication, and can we expect dialogue in hypermodernity? Should I demand reciprocity in exchange? In asking these questions, this essay turns to two philosophers – Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas – who offer philosophies that take up the question of reciprocity in dialogue. The exploration of these philosophies reveal significant implications for contending with hypermodernity.