alterity

Torque touched at night with its fingers of alterity.

Time itself involves the 'relationship to unattainable alterity', an absolute past.

The relation between them, therefore, is not oppositional, nor limitrophe, but one of alterity.

The movement of evolution is defined by confrontation and collaboration with the alterity that constitutes reality.

He could not map the alterity he felt.

Unlike a conventional ethics of altruism, such a relation remains one of alterity.

With photography one can see the past life of the other, and by projection one's own alterity, one's own mortality.

Alterity or otherness, the philosophical principle of exchanging one's perspective for that of the "other"

But in History, of course, what is called, other' is an alterity that does settle down, that falls into the dialectical circle.

Western philosophy coincides with the disclosure of the other where the other, in manifesting itself as a being, loses its alterity.

This approaching of an assimilation to the other is an important form of appropriation of an exterior, an alterity.

Rather, it is a void, a debt, a gift to the other that also reminds us of our constitutive alterity with respect to ourselves."

In Western philosophy, when knowledge or theory comprehends the other, then the alterity of the latter vanishes as it becomes part of the same.

Alterity is a philosophical term meaning "otherness", strictly being in the sense of the other of two (Latin alter).

The Difference of Alterity.

But the most stultifying of all, and my favorite for its sheer alterity, is Einstein's Twin Paradox.

Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses.

Mimesis and Alterity (1993)

In particular, 'Lacan spends some time on the "otherness" and alterity of mimesis in relation to the gaze'.

Theoretically her work has considered colonial and postcolonial representation, identity and alterity, and hybridity.

Chaney claims that the novel "celebrates transformations of identity by way of creaturely alterity.

There may also arise a tendency towards relativism if the Other, as pure alterity, leads to a notion that ignores the commonality of truth.

In this series of ink drawings of athletic sculptures, the artist examines structures that impose both conformity and alterity on the body.

Levinas opposes freedom, based on self-interest, to justice, which respects the alterity of the other and can only be proposed through the asymmetry of dialogue.

The fictive curtains in the upper corners of the painting for example, signal alterity (or otherness) of the scene by drawing attention to the surface.