We teach to be heard, we write to be read and we live to be recognised. I thank my interlocutors for confrming my being in the world. I also thank them for recognizing me not only as a fellow human and a fellow thinker, but as a dialogical thinker. Now it is my turn to recognise you by responding to those of your interventions that ask for a response. Three of these stand out. First, there is the ontic question of the nature of human recognition. This is a universal concern. Then there is the political question of writers’ responsibility to consider how their interventions will be received. This is a moral concern. Finally, there is the scholarly question of in what degree it is possible, or perhaps even an ideal, for an intellectual to produce a coherent oeuvre. These days, this is a concern that pertains only to intellectuals themselves.