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…
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Essay Series – Book 1 from DE L’INFINI : A FOREIGNER’S METAPHYSICS
The fact is surprising and saddening : philosophy, social sciences and the humanities had to wait for the late 1980s, just twenty-five years ago, for the first major study of foreignness. Julia Kristeva’s Strangers to Ourselves (1988) had to start the work from scratch : it opens the field, first, by tracing the lines of a history of the conditions and treatments of foreigners in the larger history of Europe and the West. The blame is certainly to be put on an intellectual tradition, or rather, an intellectual inclination, which did not attempt any encyclopaedic project of a cumulative history of foreigners, not to mention the philosophical ambition of an unpacking of the concept of foreignness altogether.
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.
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…