The Institute's own claim: subject and object are standings assigned within the encounter; language is the fullest form of the relation, not its origin. This is the branch most in need of readers who will push back.

From the map. DGH: We distinguish the existence of the participants from the standings they acquire in an encounter. We develop this distinction in response to Gadamer’s account of language and bring it to one specific disagreement with Habermas about coping.

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