Classical
phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and a neglect of
the communicative structure of experience, especially the
phenomenological importance of the addressee, the inseparability of I
and You, and the nature of the alternation between them. Beata Stawarska
remedies this neglect by bringing relevant contributions from cognate
empirical disciplines-such as sociolinguistics and developmental
psychology, as well as the dialogic tradition in philosophy-to bear on
phenomenological inquiry. Taken together, these contributions
substantiate an alternative view of primary I-You connectedness and help
foreground the dialogic dimension of both prediscursive and discursive
experience. Between You and I suggests that phenomenology is best practiced in a dialogical engagement with other disciplines.