The Process of Becoming Other in the Classical and Contemporary World: Philosophical, Cultural, and Humanistic Perspectives on Communication Across ... Studies in Otherness and Communication)

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Charts
Introduction
	I: The Classical Imagery of Otherness
	II: “Intersubjectivity and Pedagogy of Emotions”
	III: “Founding Hospitality Policies”
	IV: “Production, Sharing and Reception of Scientific Knowledge”
Part I: The Classical Imagery of Otherness
	Chapter 1: Hospitality in the Ancient World: Tolerance and War
		References
			Editions and Commentaries
			Dictionaries
			Other Works Cited
	Chapter 2: The Republic’s City and Its Others
		Others Unknown and Unknowing
		A City Without Others
		The Foreigner, Conceptually
		Foreignness and the Rulers
		The Foreigner, Epistemologically (City Seen from Abroad)
		The Look of Tyranny
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Reaching Out and Escaping from Other: Odysseus
		Peculiar Status of the Homeric Poems
		Structural Dualism
		Scenarios of Identity and Otherness
		Reclaiming Identity
			The 12 Apologues
		Defence of Identity
			The Seven Falsified Biographies
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 4: Exaiphnes Penthesilea: Figuring out Otherness in Exekias’s Amphora
		Setting Parameters: Achilles and Penthesilea; Dionysos and Oinopion
		I
			θαῦμα: The Beginning of Otherness
			The Amazon: From History to Philosophical Enigma
		II
			Grasping Otherness with Heraclitus
		Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 5: The Other in Kiluanji Kia Henda: Shakespeare and Camões Revisited
		Introduction
		The Merchant of Venice: Allegory at Play
		Othello’s Fate: The Visual Display of a Black Body
		The Isle of Venus: The Unfruitful Promise of a Locus amœnus
		References
	Chapter 6: Poetic Word and Otherness in António Ramos Rosa and Manoel de Barros
		To Write What Does Not Happen: The Autonomy of the Poetic Word and the Other Vision of the Poem
		There I Took on the Anonymity of a Tree: Being Nothing to Be Others
		References
	Chapter 7: Reinventing the Barbarian: The Other in the Eye of the Beholder
		Introducing the Word and Its Homeric Context
			The Homeric Carians: Barbarophonoi, Barbaroi, or Meixobarbaroi?
		From a Barbarophonos People to a Babelian Army
		Inventing the Barbarian
		Elucidating Homer Despite Homer
		The Homeric Poems: An Inextinguishable Source
		References
Part II: Intersubjectivity and Pedagogy of Emotions
	Chapter 8: Alterity, Otherwise, than Other
		Introduction: The Same and the Other
		Greek Metaphysics and Otherness
			Plato and the Dialectic of the Sophist
			Aristotle and Vertical Hierarchy
			Plotinus and the Revival of the Problematic
		Lexical Excursus
		Levinas and Alterity
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9: Alterity and Empathy: How to Communicate the Climate Crisis
		Introduction
		Alterity and Empathy
		Analysis
		Discussion
		References
	Chapter 10: “Hell Is Other People!”: Otherness in an Absurd World—An Analysis on Tayfun Pirselimoglu’s Kerr
		Introduction
		Anxiety, Otherness, and Anthropophobia
		Analysis of the Film
			Thrown into the World and Trapped
			Irrational Others and Existence in a Strange World
			The Possibility of Meaningful Communication in an Absurd World
		Discussion and Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 11: Intersubjectivity and Otherness In the Experience of Childbirth: Psychoanalysis and Transcendental Phenomenology
		Introduction
		Wanting a Child: Impulsive Intentionality and Transcendence of Others
		Being Pregnant: Inner Passion and the Other, First in Oneself
		Giving Birth and Losing Oneself
		Reminiscence and Confrontation with the Otherness of the Unconscious
		Transformation of the Maternal Gaze and Co-birth of the Mother and Her Child
		The Initial Passion Converts into Love of Others and Love for Oneself
		The Universal Telos, the Human Community, and the Idea of God
		References
	Chapter 12: Shaking Music Intuitions by Othernessing the Wilderness
		Introduction
		Preliminary Note
		Nature: Object vs Subject
		Music and Nature
		Listening: The Focal Point
		Musicking in the Wilderness
		Act One: Music Intuition
		Act Two: Musicking Wanderings
		Act Three: Otherness vs Togetherness
		Final Remark
		References
	Chapter 13: How Do Young People Perceive Risk? An Approach to Self-Expression Through Creative Intervention
		Introduction
		Contextualizing the Risk Debate
		Objectives and Methodology
		Presentation and Discussion of Results
		Conclusions
		References
Part III: Founding Hospitality Policies
	Chapter 14: Friendship as a Principle of Association of the City in Aristotle’s Politics
		The κοινωνία πολιτική and the Problem of the πόλις
		Necessity and Attributes of a Principle of Association of the πόλις
		The φιλία as a Principle of Unity of the City
		The φιλία as a Natural Principle of the Conventional Normativity of Every Human Community
		References
	Chapter 15: Paul Ricœur and the Construction of the Possibility of Hospitality
		Introduction
		Derrida’s Deconstruction of Hospitality
		Ricœur Deconstruction of Absolute Exclusion
		The Role of the Other in the Construction of a Narrative Identity
		Ricœur Reconstruction of Hospitality
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 16: The West, the Stranger, and the Guest
		Criticism of the West in the 1960s–1970s
		The Process of Westernization and the Challenge of the Foreigner
		Foreignness and Friendship
		References
	Chapter 17: Foucault’s Other to Power
		References
	Chapter 18: The Racial Other: The Social Media Experience of Mixed-Race South Africans
		Introduction
		Context and Background
		Theoretical Framework
		Methodology
		Findings
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Production, Sharing and Reception of Scientific Knowledge
	Chapter 19: Communicating Science: A Path Paved of Obstacles
		Paradigms and Epistemological Obstacles
		Science and Common Sense
		Semantics Versus Syntax: The Interpretation Problem
		Explainability and Opacity of the Algorithms
		Science and Religious Beliefs
		Science and Contemporary Culture
		Conclusion: The Crucial Roles of History and Epistemology
		References
	Chapter 20: The New Other of Intelligence Artificial
		Introduction
		There Must Be No Remainder
		Gods
		Robots
		The New Other
		The Amalgamation of Historical Others (the Gods and the Machines)
		References
	Chapter 21: Watching Photography
		Introduction
		Appearance and Photographs of Flight
		Watching the Photograph
		The Photograph of Laith Majid
		Seeing Beyond the Frame
		Taking Place Through Self-Presentation
		Connecting Past, Present, and Future
		Conclusion
		Literature
			News Sources
	Chapter 22: In the Intersection of Decolonial Ecofeminism and Critical Theory: A Reconceptualization of Nature as the Other
		Introduction
		Enlightenment Construction of Nature
			Why Eliminate Human/Nature Dualism to Eliminate Instrumental Reason?
			Dualism or Dialectic
			Is Change Possible?
		Efforts to Solve the Problem of Instrumental Reason
			Naess’s Deep Ecology
			Plumwood’s Ecofeminism
		Decolonial Feminism: Feminist Nature, Ecological Challenge
		Conclusion
		References
Index