The Question of the Other

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-962-996-277-7
Verlag: The Chinese University Press

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Hardback, Gewicht: 462 g

Reihe: Tang Chun-I Lecture Series

Drawn from a series of lectures that Bernhard Waldenfels delivered in honour of the Chinese philosopher Tang Chun-I, ""The Question of the Other"" is a collection of seven papers introducing what he calls a new sort of responsive phenomenology. This means that our experience does not start from our own intentions or from our common understanding, but from something that happens and appeals to us, disturbing our projects and forcing us to respond. We only become ourselves by responding to the Other. Hence otherness is not restricted to the otherness of the Other or to that of another order, it rather penetrates ourselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waldenfels, Bernhard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Lecture I: Experience of the Other; Opening: Picture magic; The Rise of the Alien in Western History; Linguistic and Conceptual Shades; The Same, the Self and the Ambiguity of Otherness; Alienness as Incarnate Absence; My Own and the Other' s Alienness; Alienness Outside Order and Below Order; Ways of Appropriation; The Paradox of Xenology; Lecture II: Response to the Other; Opening: Refusal of response; Intentionality, Regularity, and Responsivity; Demand and Response; Singularity and Inevitability; Posteriority, Asymmetry, and the Third Party; Responding to What Happens; Lecture III: The Power of Events; Opening: A traffic accident; Getting out of Line; To Whom Something Happens; What Happens between Us; What Takes Place and Proceeds; Lecture IV: Time-Lag; Opening: No first word, no last word; Logos of Time; Time of Speech; Time of the Senses; Time of Forgetting and Remembering; Time of the Other; Lecture V: Bodily Experience between Selfhood and Otherness; Opening: Loss of the face; The Riddle of Our Body; Intentionality and Affection; The Split Self; The Other as My Double; Lecture VI: Violence as Violation; Opening: Sacrifice of human beings; Topics of Violence; Violence between Nature and Culture; Violence and Violation; Collective, Individual, and Anonymous Violence; Normality and Singularity of Violence; Violence under the Sway of Order; Violence in the Shadow of Orders; Lecture VII: Being Here and Elsewhere; Opening: Contract of conquest; Three Historical Space Paradigms; The Multiplicity of the Life-world; Orientated versus Homogeneous Space; Real or Symbolic Space?