The question of the other / Berhard Waldenfels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldenfels, Bernhard, 1934-

Series:

Tang Chun-I lecture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Other (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press ; Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Introduces the phenomenology of the other, taking into account the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Schutz, and Derrida, but mostly going back to things themselves.

Contents:

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

Alienness of myself and of the other

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

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

Myth and 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: lost 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 lifeworld

Orientated versus homogeneous space

Real or symbolic space?

Actual, habitual, and virtual space

Being in place and out of place

Globalisation, localisation and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-148).

ISBN:

9780791473719

0791473716

OCLC:

123767118