Phenomenology of the Alien: Basic Concepts

Contents

Contents Introduction: Facets of the Alien 3 1 The Human as a Liminal Being 8 1. Orders and Their Limits — 2. Boundless Universe — 3. Ownness, Alienness, Contingency — 4. Modern Compromises — 5. Paradoxes of Self-Bounding — 6. Possibilities and Impossibilities 2 Between Pathos and Response 21 1. In the Realm of Sense — 2. Abysses of the Pathic — 3. Patient and Respondent — 4. On the Hither Side of Good and Evil — 5. Temporal Diastasis — 6. Testing by Practice 3 Response to the Alien 35 1. Responsivity — 2. Call and Response — 3. Aspects of a Response Logic 4 Corporeal Experience Between Selfhood and Otherness 43 1. The Enigma of the Body — 2. Sense and Affection — 3. The Split Self — 4. The Other as My Double 5 Thresholds of Attention 58 1. Attending — 2. With All Senses — 3. Basic Features of Attention — 4. Arts of Attention — 5. Techniques and Practices of Attention 6 Between Cultures 70 1. Interculturality as In-Between Sphere — 2. The Ambiguity of the Alien — 3. Alienness Versus Otherness — 4. The Paradox of Alien Experience — 5. The Nexus of Own and Alien — 6. Alienness Within and Outside Ourselves — 7. Collective Experience and Collective Speech — 8. The Alien and the Third — 9. Xenology and Xenopolitics — 10. Procedures of Estrangement Notes 85 References 89 P H E N O M E N O L O G Y O F T H E A L I E N ...