The article places the issue of the other in the sphere of ethics in education. It initially explains the topic and then presents the phenomenological interpretation of Bernhard Waldenfels, who shows the limits of our understanding and advocates the form of access to the other as a "peculiar logic of response" , breaking with the dialogical approach. Next, it presents the position of Hans-Georg Gadamer, who takes up again the platonic dialogue beginning with philosophical hermeneutics, retaining the lógos which can be shared by all, so as to build a bridge between the self and the other. Finally, it indicates the explanatory potential of the two positions to understand the tensional dimension present in the relationship with alterity. The educational efforts of taking in the uniqueness of the other require going beyond an appropriating metaphysical vision. The expectations of an ethical opening to create a common world are lodged in the dialogical experience.
other; phenomenology of the alien; hermeneutical dialogue