De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Part 1
Beyond the individual : the collective, the community, its practices and customs – the human cultures…
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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 III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Part 3
Is philosophy still philo-sophia ? …
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 1
The fact is so evident that we have managed to explore foreignness extensively without discussing it in depth : foreignness is a matter of space…
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 2
We have already touched upon the avenir as a radical modification of Heidegger’s temporal project…