... model medical intervention medical technology midwifery umbilical cord unconscious Caesarian section dependence dependency gift the Guenther Lisa adoption responsibility alterity dependency freedom intersubjectivity generosity birth infant Most of the books available to expectant parents...

... in the lower case, the other, for Derrida, can designate the alterity of Autrui, as well as encompassing what has traditionally been understood as a formal or logical sense of alterity (for example, in the Hegelian and Husserlian sense) without being reduced to it. Echoing the concerns of “Violence...

... work? How are the other and alterity broached in Blanchot's récits? The chapter shows that the passages chosen by Derrida from Blanchot's récits are exemplary instances of the relation to the other. “Pas” and “Survivre”, in particular, highlight moments...

...The introduction considers the relationship between Freudian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction and highlights the key role that otherness and alteration play in both fields. The author examines the ethical and political implications of deconstructive and psychoanalytic theories, arguing...

... emphasizes the importance of alteration, of the “alien” excitations that both constitute the psyche and alter its constitution in an ongoing way. In a concluding turn, the chapter considers the relationship between limits, understood in Freud’s sense, on the one hand, and borders, on the other. Addressing...

... and the agapic revelation of alterity. action theory agency alterity Arendt Hannah Audi Robert desire Face the God divine goods intentions Levinas Emmanuel motivation motives projective phenomenology Pink Thomas Transmission principle values volitional agency willing Aristotle direction...

... of a subject constituted by the alterity of the law that traverses Kant's practical philosophy—a conception that bears witness to the being practical of pure reason—is not, however, the concept of autonomy that has prevailed, yet it has the potential to surprise and energize our thinking today. autonomy...

... otherness generates problems and aporias of its own. This has led some thinkers to reevaluate the notion of relative otherness in light of the postmodern critique, arguing for a chiastic account that does justice to both the alterity and the similitude of the other. These latter two positions—absolute...

... for their sublation of alterity. hagiography narrative theory Hallie Philip Kant Immanuel Le Chambon sur Lignon New Testament refugees Shoah teacher evil philosophy responsibility Socrates Wiesel Elie agency ethics face the habit identity Levinas Emmanuel MacIntyre Alasdair Other passivity...

...This chapter takes up the question of whether Christian theology can acknowledge alterity without becoming less theological. Rhetorically oscillating between the concrete and the spiritual, it argues that a Levinasian hospitality can succeed only on the basis of a theological reality...

.... The chapter maintains that, in his questioning of the primacy of the transcendental subject and in his description of the desire for God, Jacques Derrida's account of naming and negative theology is essentially transgressive, an erotics of transcendence. When the sheer contingency of fact leads to an alterity...

...This introductory chapter begins by presenting the book's rationales for pushing the discussion of the other in autobiography toward a consideration of an alterity outside the subject's categories, all of which address its open-endedness and its specificity as written text. It then explains...

..., not the abstract identity of which Hegel spoke, but the place in which an alterity is internal to the identity itself. National Identity French Transformation Hegel Alterity The project of having the population of a country hold an official debate about its own identity is one that initiates a deadly process...

... rereading of Adorno’s theory of “structural listening.” alterity ears finitude secret spectrality structural listening It is in broad daylight that they, in turn, prepare to track down the origin or the source of the noise that will lead them toward the one they are looking for, whom they do not even...

... might entail. The eschatological reduction endeavors to amplify the horizons of “theology” and “philosophy” to include neglected possibilities of experiencing divinity and sacredness, alterity and transcendence, ultimacy, and depth. The chapter concludes that the eschatological reduction aims to bring...

...This chapter discusses divinity and alterity. Divinity and alterity have haunted phenomenology since its beginnings. The fourth reduction draws on these themes that are already to be found in Kearney's Strangers, Gods, and Monsters. The discussion poses three questions...

... language that personalizes transcendence and thereby runs the risk of undermining the irreducible alterity and invisibility attributed to the transcendent other. Apophatic theologies, accordingly, must be supplanted by a more far-reaching apophasis, such that the much-celebrated metaphor of the gift would...

... for Hollywood historical dramas of the members of the Cologne Tribes, as a starting point for investigating forms of the performative appropriation of media, exploring the entanglement and interactions of fascination with films and mimetic practices of alterity that she observed among the Cologne Tribes...

... of the human subject” (Butler) and “the odyssey of alterity” (Kearney); in wider theoretical scholarship such as art theory, cultural studies, gender studies, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, etc. Beeckman Isaac Descartes René biographer of cogito sum Huxley Aldous Descartes René works The Search...

... with the absolute other for which Levinas's ethical philosophy calls. But it is also, in the second instance, a question for Levinas, concerning the potential of autobiography to represent an alterity perhaps not fully accounted for by his philosophy. It is argued that while Levinas helps us to read the crisis...