The question of the other
By: Berhard Waldenfels.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780791473719
Subjects: Other (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lecture I: experience of the other; title: Opening: picture magic; title: The rise of the alien in western history; title: Linguistic and conceptual shades; title: The same, the self and the ambiguity of otherness; title: Alienness as incarnate absence; title: Alienness of myself and of the other; title: Alienness outside order and below order; title: Ways of appropriation; title: The paradox of xenology; title: Lecture II: response to the other; title: Opening: refusal of response; title: Intentionality, regularity, and responsivity; title: Demand and response; title: Singularity and inevitability; title: Posteriority, asymmetry, and the third; title: Responding to what happens; title: Lecture III: the power of events; title: Opening: a traffic accident; title: Getting out of line; title: To whom something happens; title: What happens between us; title: What takes place and proceeds; title: Lecture IV: time-lag; title: Opening: no first word, no last word; title: Myth and logos of time; title: Time of speech; title: Time of the senses; title: Time of forgetting and remembering; title: Time of the other; title: Lecture V: bodily experience between selfhood and otherness; title: Opening: lost of the face; title: The riddle of our body; title: Intentionality and affection; title: The split self; title: The other as my double; title: Lecture VI: violence as violation; title: Opening: sacrifice of human beings; title: Topics of violence; title: Violence between nature and culture; title: Violence and violation; title: Collective, individual, and anonymous violence; title: Normality and singularity of violence; title: Violence under the sway of order; title: Violence in the shadow of orders; title: Lecture VII: being here and elsewhere; title: Opening: contract of conquest; title: Three historical space paradigms; title: The multiplicity of lifeworld; title: Orientated versus homogeneous space; title: Real or symbolic space?; title: Actual, habitual, and virtual space; title: Being in place and out of place; title: Globalisation, localisation and beyond.