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Antoni Gomila Benejam 
When it looked as if the several ways of doing philosophy had nothing in common, the dialogue between Habermas and Rorty emerged steadily few years ago. Both of them, being outstanding representatives of their own traditions, were conscious of their failures; both of them argue for original views about the nature and history of philosophy; both of them resort, in their respective proposals, to ideas clearly from the other tradition -Habermas to pragmatism, Rorty to hermeneutics-. Too many coincidences to ignore them.
This paper contends that their dissent arises from what they share. We will consider their assessment of the philosophical task, the reasons that have contributed to the development of their respective conceptions -the conversation of Mankind, the Theory of Communicative Action and what is really at stake in the debate:
the historicity or not of the intersubjective character of rationality.
