Collaboration, Criticism and the World of Friendship

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to uncover a world that would be worth affirming within our world that continually faces crises and social transformations. Religious, ethnic, cultural, political, and even academic spheres of our everyday world face crises and are in a continual process of transformation. In light of the social transformations and crises that recur in our society, this paper seeks to focus on our attempts to make sense of these crises and changes. It seeks to investigate how we understand the world and the other, and what impedes this process of understanding and also what grounds this process. Drawing on the works of Hans George Gadamer, this paper seeks to describe the process of understanding as a generative, dialectical, expanding, and deepening kind of experience, rather than as a step-by-step progressive process.