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…
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Essay Series – Book 3 from DE L’INFINI : A FOREIGNER’S METAPHYSICS
If Derrida attempted deconstruction, we should aim at organising an exercise of reconstruction. The point, here, will not be to take certain concepts and to create imbalance in one of their popular or even scholarly definitions. Rather, this exercise will be willingly oriented, with the preliminary setting of a particular horizon to reach, of a particular conceptual connection to establish. Finding foreignness within culture, ethics, language and philosophy, it is asserting that culture, ethics, language and philosophy are each bereft of a possibility without the historical and existential phenomenon of foreignness.
De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Part 1
Beyond the individual : the collective, the community, its practices and customs – the human cultures…