Less convincing, however, is the demand for the “guillotining” of the name “Napoleon”
The problem at the heart of this question is the meaning of ‘dialogue.’ It is not entirely clear whether ‘dialogue’ is grasped, within the context of the St. Claire, as either a process (the method or way discourse unfolds) in which something other than dialogue is produced as its result (the ‘end’ or ‘purpose’ of the process that emerges when the process is disrupted); or whether dialogue is itself the result from whence the process is retroactively rendered intelligible (we make sense of dialogue as a process precisely because it is given as a fixed and meaningful term).