scholarly journals Hermeneutics of the other

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-612
Author(s):  
Zeljko Radinkovic
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Open Process ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Cultural Pessimism ◽  
Asymmetrical Relationships

The article primarily addresses different philosophical views of otherness (Levinas, Waldenfels, Liebsch) and tries to question them from a hermeneutic perspective. Above all, the conceptual radicalism of the asymmetrical relationships is criticized through the hermeneutic approach, understood not as mere strategy of appropriating the other or the stranger, but as an open process of understanding, in which the heterogeneity of those involved is subject to constant change, but is nevertheless always maintained. On this basis, the cultural-philosophical, but also social and political relevance of the opposition between cultural pessimism and cultural optimism is called into question.

scholarly journals Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosignals of fear and happiness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biagio D’Aniello ◽  
Barbara Fierro ◽  
Anna Scandurra ◽  
Claudia Pinelli ◽  
Massimo Aria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
The Other ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Stress Signals ◽  
Stress Behaviors ◽  
The Stranger

AbstractThis research focuses on sex differences in the behavioral patterns of dogs when they are exposed to human chemosignals (sweat) produced in happy and fear contexts. No age, breed or apparatus-directed behavior differences were found. However, when exposed to fear chemosignals, dogs’ behavior towards their owners, and their stress signals lasted longer when compared to being exposed to happiness as well as control chemosignals. In the happy odor condition, females, in contrast to males, displayed a significantly higher interest to the stranger compared to their owner. In the fear condition, dogs spent more time with their owner compared to the stranger. Behaviors directed towards the door, indicative of exit interest, had a longer duration in the fear condition than the other two conditions. Female dogs revealed a significantly longer door-directed behavior in the fear condition compared to the control condition. Overall the data shows that the effect of exposure to human emotional chemosignals is not sex dependent for behaviors related to the apparatus, the owner or the stress behaviors; however, in the happiness condition, females showed a stronger tendency to interact with the stranger.

scholarly journals The Stranger as Friend: The Poetics of Friendship in Homer, Dante, and Boccaccio

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Masciandaro
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Natural Extension ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Stranger

The principal aim of this study is to participate in the current renewed discourse on the meaning of friendship, initiated in 1994 by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida with his Politics of Friendship, by combining the philosophical method of inquiry with the hermeneutical approach to poetic representations of friendship in the Iliad, the Divine Comedy, and the Decameron. It examines friendship not only as the unique love between two persons based on familiarity and proximity, but as the love for the one who is far away, the stranger, for this is a natural extension of the implicit love of the distant other, of the other-as-stranger – what Emmanuel Levinas has called "the infinity of the Other" – which is concealed in our friend, and which, in the words of Maurice Blanchot, puts us "authentically in relation" with him or her.

scholarly journals Japanese Concepts of Angels: Analyzing Depictions of Celestial Beings in the shōjo Manga Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Sharbat Dar
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Shojo Manga ◽  
Insight Into

White wings, long hair, 'pure' faces: the appearance of angels frequently follows similar aesthetics connected to Christian imagery. Angels and Christian religion also are popular themes in manga, Japanese comics, often intermingled with Buddhist or Shinto notions. Since imagery in popular culture resonates and shapes vernacular and cultural perspectives, manga like Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne (KKJ) provide an important insight into the conceptualization of angels in Japan. This article therefore analyzes the contrary role of angels in KKJ as the Other, the mysterious, serene one, while simultaneously angels are depicted as part of the circle of life every creature undergoes in Buddhist cosmology. Based on a visual hermeneutic approach, this article demonstrates how the intermix of both visual and religious traditions in Japan shape the depiction of angels in Japanese popcultural media.

Claire Denis – The Intruder

2019 ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
Jan Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Heart Transplant ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
Bodily Sensation ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
The Way ◽  
Extended Essay

An extended essay on Claire Denis’ L’Intrus acts as a companion piece to the chapter on Frances Barrett. Dealing with similar themes of care, hospitality, and feminism, it expands on an aspect that sat at the edges of Curator, the questioning of received ontological boundaries or defining categories. Denis covers both formerly and conceptually a taxonomy of borders, which are both physical and psychological. Her source material, Jean Luc Nancy’s essay about his heart transplant, is considered in relation to the way Denis produces a moving image work from a philosophical text, with particular concern for her treatment of narrative to produce bodily sensation. The ‘Other’ or figure of the stranger is pitted against the disintegrating power of patriarchy referenced in Denis’ casting of the actor, Michel Subor, who appears in L’Intrus and Beau Travail (1999) as well as Jean Luc Godard’s Petite Soldat (1955). [145]

Things at the Edge of the World

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Entire Domain ◽  
The World ◽  
Combined Operation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Stranger

This chapter describes things at the edge of the world as sites at which events of reversal and transformation take place. It looks at three examples of reversals: people's experience of the sun; the nonhuman animal; and that of the other human, which is divided into three—the sexual other, the stranger, and the enemy. In each case, a thing that begins as an object of experience becomes the site of an event of reversal and transformation in which not only the subject is implicated in an unexpected way but the world, or a part of it, is poised for restructuration and for the proliferation of new chains of possibility. The chapter then suggests that the entire domain marked by these events of reversal and transformation is generated by the combined operation of three different phenomena. These include (1) the primordial constitution of selfhood, (2) variable modes of identification with that self, and (3) the projection of modes of otherness consistent with one's manner of self-relatedness.

scholarly journals A place to share: Some thoughts about the meaning of territory and boundaries in our thinking about God and humanity

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riet Bons-Storm
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Images Of God ◽  
The Stranger

This article proffers some thoughts in reply to the following question: how can we think about God in a theology that takes into account the concept of place in such a way that we are able to live together in a salvific way with others, sharing a place as equals? Concepts such as “territory” and “territoriality” are helpful, because they can be linked with “identity” and the need to feel safe. Boundaries and boundary markers such as walls play an important role in conflicts. The possibility of a “liminal space” at a boundary where eye-to-eye relationships may be possible helps to make “the other”, the stranger, a human being with her/his own needs and vulnerability. Using the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as an example, images of God and their impact on the possibility of sharing the land are explored. Hagar, herself a stranger, experiences God's lifesaving attention and names God “God of seeing”.

Chinese Perception of Justice in Integrative Negotiation in Stranger and Acquaintance Contexts

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejun Cheng ◽  
Xiupan Teng ◽  
Zhe Song
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Integrative Negotiation ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
People’S Perceptions

We used negotiation tasks to examine the Chinese perception about justice in integrative negotiation with another party in the context of both a stranger of and an acquaintance. We found that Chinese disputants do not care about the other party's income in the stranger context, but they do care about the other party's income in the acquaintance context. Findings for the influence of relationship on Chinese people's perceptions of justice were strikingly different from that of Westerners in the stranger context in previous studies conducted by other researchers.

scholarly journals Gadamer, Levinas, and the Hermeneutic Ontology of Ethics

Philosophies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Christopher King
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Philosophy

Much debate has been held over the question of whether Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic approach to ethics and the other can do justice to the alterity of the other, as exemplified in Emmanuel Levinas’s approach to ethics as first philosophy. The challenge to Gadamer and to hermeneutics more generally, comes obliquely from Levinas and more directly, from Robert Bernasconi, who argues that Gadamer cannot account for an otherness that ends in incomprehensibility as one finds in encounters between persons of asymmetrical power relations—oppressed and oppressor, privileged and marginalized. Bernasconi’s critique has resulted in a flurry of hermeneutic responses that insist that Gadamer’s hermeneutics can, if understood in the right way, accommodate the other and serve as the foundation for robust ethical treatment of the other. I argue in this paper that participants in this debate have been insufficiently attentive to the ontologies that underlie the accounts of self and other in Gadamer and in Levinas. Because Gadamer and Levinas begin from different ontologies, their accounts of ethics and of the ground of ethics differ.

Metamorphoses of the “Stranger”: Jews in Europe, Polish Peasants in America, Turks in Germany

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nedim Karakayalı
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Resident ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
Foreign Origin ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Turks In Germany ◽  
The Stranger

The increase in population of wood and mountain barbarian tribes on one hand, and the increasing demand for labor in the developing culture areas on the other created, with increasing wealth, numerous lower or unclean services. When the local resident population declined to take them over, these occupations fell into the hands of alien workers of foreign origin who were permanently lodged in urban areas but retained their tribal affiliations (Max Weber, 1968 [1923], p. 12).

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