This third issue of Al-Tadween journal, through the quality of its topics and the diversity of its writing languages, reflects one of the core objectives of the Scientific Committee: hospitality. We mean hospitality in a sense that fosters a desire for partnership in its broadest meaning—a warm and continuous hospitality where reception and reception theory serve as essential elements. In the final decades of the last century, reception theory approaches, through discourse analysis, became a central axis of scientific debates across the social sciences, humanities, philosophy, and the novel. Each of these disciplines contributed to providing clarifications that undoubtedly allowed the discourses they carry to enrich one another. This convergence resulted in a synergy of approaches and methodologies, enabling translation to become more deeply anchored within hermeneutic frameworks and to draw from various intellectual fields.

Revolving around this perspective, the opening articles by Abdelrahmane El-Zaoui, Omar Bousaha, M'hamed Aissani, Hafida Belkasmi, and Nadia Bouneffaka intersect around translation and reception theory. Each author, from their respective field of specialization, attempted to analyze this problematic—whether starting from a specific thinker or philosopher (as with Bouneffaka and Aissani), from a particular problem (as with El-Zaoui and Bousaha), or through an applied field (as with Belkasmi).

Without straying far from this approach, articles in French by Abdelkrim El-Aidi, Régis Messac, and Fatima Sidi Othmane open the floor to debates on the problematics of the intellectual, ranging from the anxiety of the intellectual to the reinterpretation of Marxist thought. These articles attempt to address the modalities of hospitality in the sense of friendship or ways of living together. Furthermore, Fatima Sidi Othmane's contribution, alongside the French-language article by Idriss Belhassen, initiates a dialogue on gender and the question of the body across various societies and institutions.

The second part of the articles—authored by Rachida Sari, Chahrazad Derras, Abdelwahab Mattari, Ben El-Zaoui El-Saadi, and Belhadjri Belazza—focuses on issues concerning reception through ethics, morality, or reform, intersecting with the discourse on values and its efficacy in the public sphere. This core subject—the public sphere—is likewise present in the thought of Ben El-Zaoui and Faras, whether in addressing secularism (a topic of paramount importance in contemporary social practices) or implicitly within the theses of the thinker Mohammed Arkoun.

In a similar vein, Salima Bouchakra devotes her article to Short Message Service (SMS) to uncover the intentional uses of language and the impact of technological channels on social ties. Modes of communication are not merely technological; artistic and aesthetic expressions, such as music, can also play a unifying role in social bonding. In this context, Salem El-Ayadi’s article on music in Al-Farabi’s thought highlights the value of the Arab-Islamic heritage in its attempt to reflect upon the practical applications of reason.

The two articles featured in the specialized research section offer domain-specific insights into the institution and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, following the same analytical trajectory established in the previous issue. Additionally, an interview conducted by Tensi Lili and translated by Dr. Kouasmi Mourad with Professor Monique Dixsaut during her visit to Oran—summarizing half a century of her experience teaching Plato—will undoubtedly contribute to highlighting the overall value of the articles in this issue. As she demonstrates in her book Plato: The Desire to Know, the reception of Platonic texts has taken multiple paths to date, without yet fully reaching the challenge Plato himself set forth regarding philosophia, or the desire for knowledge.