Alterity | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-30

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Alterity

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Alterity is a philosophical and anthropological term meaning “otherness", that is, the "other of two" (Latin alter). It is also increasingly being used in media to express something other than “sameness," an imitation compared to the original.  Alterity is an encounter with "the other." This “other” is not like any other worldly object or force. The perceiving subject (I myself) sees that another human being is “like me.” They act like I do, appear to be in control of their conscious life, just like me. The “other” takes me out of myself and creates new understanding, that is, alterity. Philosophically, the life of the other functions symbolically. It is in our encounter with this other life that generates the contrasts at the foundations of new consciousness. In such exchanges we are not lost, but rather the “proper self,” one’s subjectivity, scrubbed and brightly lit, becomes stained and unsure by a renewed understanding from a nonoriginal origin. Ego is still there; we do not disappear, but boundaries are less well defined. The self is opened to new experiences, and the “affair” of the other is made available."