De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— General Introduction
In the beginning, there never was the foreigner.
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Essay Series in 4 Books
And what if we brought the foreigner back from (outside) the margins ? One cannot deny that our understanding of foreignness is narrowed down to a political, if not an administrative understanding of spaces. It is this false simplicity that we shall try to contradict in this essay, by opening an exploration of the theme of foreignness. A brief discussion of certain figures of foreignness in history will set the scene, before focusing back on the foreigner proper, and her existential condition. Transcending the individual, we shall extrapolate a set of arguments by Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to reconstruct a series of cultural motifs common to all societies, in order to discover their genesis in or around concerns of foreignness. And we shall finally go back to the basics to unveil the kind of metaphysics the foreigner may be able to invent.
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book I — Foreigner, There : History of a Political Capture
— Part 1
The fact is undeniable : the earliest communities of what would later be conceived as the Western civilisation are cultures profoundly marked by the event of foreignness.
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book I — Foreigner, There : History of a Political Capture
— Part 2
The Renaissance : times of intellectual and artistic renewal after the long Middle Ages…
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book I — Foreigner, There : History of a Political Capture
— Part 3
What happens to the foreigner after the Enlightenment century ? …
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Introduction
Back to the foreigner proper. What has the first-person voice of a foreigner to do in a philosophical exploration of foreignness ? …
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Part 1
Why is one departing ? Can one depart ? But depart from where ? …
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Part 2
Dasein : “being-there.” Heidegger knew the connotation…
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Part 3
The foreigner : whose voice ? …