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Phenomenology of the Alien

Basic Concepts
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Phenomenology of the Alien / Grundmotive einer Phänomenologie des Fremden
Basic Concepts
What can a phenomenology of the strange be? In his new book Bernhard Waldenfels, Germany’s outstanding phenomenologist, poignantly outlines its crucial traits. The key themes are: order, pathos, answer, body, attentiveness, interculturality.


As the extraordinary, the strange arises in the form of disturbance, deviations and surfeit on the border limits of given orders. The question thus arises how we can approach the strange without stripping it of the very thorn that renders it alien....
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What can a phenomenology of the strange be? In his new book Bernhard Waldenfels, Germany’s outstanding phenomenologist, poignantly outlines its crucial traits. The key themes are: order, pathos, answer, body, attentiveness, interculturality.


As the extraordinary, the strange arises in the form of disturbance, deviations and surfeit on the border limits of given orders. The question thus arises how we can approach the strange without stripping it of the very thorn that renders it alien. The result is a responsive form of phenomenology that goes beyond all intentions and rules and assumes recalcitrance and countervailing claims. An answering self is the corporeal self that is never completely with itself. The strange begins at home. It begins with the attentiveness involved when we notice something. And it ends not least with interculturality, which is also a challenge for philosophy. Global thought is neither to be expected nor desirable in this context. The attempt to transgress borders without eliding them is part of the adventures of alien-ness between cultures. It is authors such as Bakhtin, Freud and Mauss, such as Calvino, Kafka, Musil and Valéry, who add the special spice to the phenomenology of the strange.

2006, 134 pages
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Bernhard Waldenfels, born in Essen in 1934, is professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum.

Bernhard Waldenfels, born in Essen in 1934, is professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum.


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Globality, Locality, Digitality
Year of Publication: 2022
Bernhard WaldenfelsYear of Publication: 2022
Global challenges such as flight, migration, terrorism, viral pandemics and climate change call for local responses that use digital means without exhausting themselves in data, algorithms and a technology of what is possible. Hospitality, time difference and the demands of future generations provide keywords for a phenomenology that moves in the space of the pathic and the responsive. The...
Plato
Year of Publication: 2017
Bernhard WaldenfelsYear of Publication: 2017
In his latest work, world-famous phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels explores the dialectic between Pathos and Logos in Plato. Based on forays through Plato’s Dialogues, Waldenfels’s expositions touch on various subjects like politics, law, medicine, economy, anthropology, zoology, speech and literature. The individual pieces refer to thinkers like Marcel Hénaff, Claude Lévi- Strauss and Ovid and...
A Topography of the Other
Year of Publication: 1997
Bernhard WaldenfelsYear of Publication: 1997
The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well. Inspired by Husserl and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas,...
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