This paper aims at outlining a history of the failures experienced by the metaphorology of dialogue as a triumphant theoretical category from Modernity to the present, specially focusing on authors as Hölderlin and Celan. I base most of my arguments in the thesis that the Spanish thinker, Félix Duque, claimed in different papers he published since the '80, which argue for a conception of language and agreement always committed to the presence and reasons of the other one, who fulfils the role

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... an unconquerable element that acts as remainder and excess with regard to the reasons of a subject stemming from Modernity.