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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 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Introduction

Foreignness starts with the foreigner. The argument would be unsurprising, acceptable, evident, perhaps commonsensical…