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 ? …
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Essay Series – Book 2 from DE L’INFINI : A FOREIGNER’S METAPHYSICS
If existentialism evolves as a promising philosophical path for the question of foreignness specifically, it is, precisely, because numerous are the personal accounts of foreignness which invite to transcend the very possibility of conceptualisation altogether – foreignness as an event or a duration demands another language, another discourse than that of a universalising philosophy. The medium of creative, speculative and poetic hypotheses, perhaps ; or at least, the language of an interrogative subject, facing the task of philosophy just like he faces the foreign land, modest yet constructive in his attempt to elaborate upon his intuitions. Thus arrives the existentialist analysis 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…