Tag: Foreigner

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— General Introduction

In the beginning, there never was the foreigner.

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book I — Foreigner, There : History of a Political Capture
— Introduction

What is the history of ‘foreigner’? The question is obvious, and fundamental…

May 9, 2014

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.

May 9, 2014

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…

May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014

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 ? …

May 9, 2014

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 ? …

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Part 2

Dasein : “being-there.” Heidegger knew the connotation…

May 9, 2014
May 10, 2013

Herodotus, First Orientalist ? – Part 2.1
The modern word barbarian integrates both the ideas of the foreign, and of a lower value. Where is it coming form? The Greek βάρβαρος (barbaros) was conceived as antonym to πολίτης (polites), the “citizen” or inhabitant of the city. In Ancient Greece, a complex geopolitical order made of city-states, not belonging to the city meant being outside of the main form of community…