Otherness

One can only access the viewpoint of another from within one’s own horizon. This relationship between ‘one’ and ‘the other’ which, in Gadamer’s philosophy makes understanding possible, is what has been examined by other philosophers as well. Emmanuel Levinas considered this relationship known by him as ‘the face-to-face’ relationship, as “the heart of life [that] is found not in knowing yourself but in your relation to the Other.” (Theory for Performance Studies, Philip Auslander, p. 129) The…

Both Stalin and Lenin in their approaches are seeking greater industrialization amidst the agricultural sector. They are likewise concerned with the threat of capitalism. Lenin, in his New Economic Plan, is focused internally. In Lenin’s The NEP ‘A Strategical Retreat section, Lenin references a political crisis caused by the implementation of the party’s surplus-food appropriation program in the rural districts (pp. 4,5). To be clear this is a byword for unrest. When the peasantry is starving,…

Nicholls ends his article by talking about the “contradictory process of voice making and silencing of multiple forms of otherness” (Nicholls, 142). The DREAMERs struggle for power and identity to influence politicians, media and the public debate. “Equal rights should be granted only on the basis that immigrants are human beings with inalienable rights. There is a consensus…

English. Subtitles are used recurrently for multiple characters throughout the show, which differentiate it from any of the other shows that are or can be observed. It seems there is a rising attention brought to the struggle with southern dialects by the inclusion of these subtitles. For the viewer, it almost implies that southerners are backwards, uneducated, and are unable to communicate in the ways in which the general audience is able to communicate. It seems that the language barrier is…

Critical incident 3 Communicative awareness -Full competence Sandra if cognizant of the that the teacher-student relationship is based on rules. She is equally aware that students might be tempted to cheat, hence the verbal warning to the student. Throwing the cheating student’s paper into the garbage was sending a non-verbal message to the whole class that, cheating is unacceptable. Her use of both direct and indirect communication to complement each other shows her versatility in addressing…

Sexuality is often considered independent and in disagreement with certain religious views and morality. Conversely, there is substantiation for individual transcendence through a spiritual portal of sexuality. The mainstream opinion associates sexuality with the exploits connected with genital manipulation. However, various theologies have proposed that sexuality remains a vital and holistic aspect of being human, and it is the basis of our function for intimate relationships, for emotional and…

The second wave of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the 1920s indeed was a “thoroughly negative movement” which ultimately “clung to the corpse” of the pre-war era through their revival of the first Klan’s perception of race, religion and politics. The Klan carefully manipulated post-WWI tensions, directing America’s fear and anger towards racial, religious and other outcast groups who became scapegoats for all the problems of the post-war era. This ‘us versus them’ dichotomy reinforced…

one should interact with the world. Race has a dual nature, both in the way it constructs individuals’ identities and in the way it exists ontologically. Race has the capacity to make a person feel alien, estranged and feel a profound sense of “otherness” with society at large. But race, also, has imbedded within it a restorative (uplifting, recuperative?) capacity to make an individual feel integrated and in solidarity with a smaller community that shares a similar body of…

Hughes argues that black artists should embrace their otherness and stop copying the whites. Moreover, they are capable of creating newness on their own if they embrace their heritage. Notably, Hughes expresses his aspiration to be a poet, not a ‘Negro poet,’ and he depicts the desire of African Americans to…

of finite freedom lived in obedience reveals God’s freedom, the infinite freedom is concealed as it is not under obedience (Nichols 39-40). Third, because the revelation of God is in the human, it is paradoxically the revelation of God’s supreme otherness in a total emptying. The Word is expressed in silence, the Divine in the human, but most especially (and here we come to the centre of Balthazar’s theological aesthetics) God’s glory is manifest in the ugliness of the Cross. Concealment thus…