The Question of the Other

Abstract

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?