本文研究赫勒（Agnes Heller）對西方文化動態和概念之理論論述的概念性架構，尤其是指出她在文化對話之意義中所回有的一些張力。藉由批判性註解的方式，本文進一步提出這種對文化現代性之理論化的顯著貢獻模糊了兩種論述獨特樣態的界線：對話和辯證。要分辨赫勒文化論述之概念中的精確差異，得取決於辨別出這兩種不同的模態，但如此一來，就必須更進一步適切地標誌出高／低文化之概念化的價值，來重新排列辯證論述。於是就其自成一格文化式（且非僅是存在式地）特徵而言，對話論述的殘餘含義便因此有其問題。

This article considers the conceptual framework of Agnes Heller's theoretical writings on the dynamics and concepts of Western culture. In particular, it identifies some of the tensions inhering in her notion of cultural conversation. By means of a critical exegesis, it further suggests that this signal contribution to the theorization of cultural modernity obfuscates two distinct modalities of discourse: dialectics and dialogue. Distinguishing the differentia specific of Heller's concept of cultural discourse is dependent upon recognizing these dissimilar modalities, but, in doing so, one is further warranted to suggest re-aligning dialectical discourse with the practices apposite to the value-marked conceptualization of high/low culture. The residual denotation of dialogical discourse is thereby questioned in terms of its sui generis cultural-and not merely existential-salience.