ALTERITY

CRITICAL THINKING
DR CRISTINI
THE WORD

• “state, quality of what is other”

• Alter, alteritas in Latin= otherness

• “state, quality of being other”; differentness, otherness, diverseness,

• Anders, der Anders in German

I ALTERITY IS EVERYWHERE

• Humans
• Geology
II TO COUNTER INDIVIDUALISM, ALTERITY
IS KEY

• Otherness
• Paul Ricoeur
• Identity idem/identical
• Identity ipse/ other
II TO COUNTER INDIVIDUALISM /ALTERITY

• Levinas Philosophy. Within the phenomenological tradition, alterity is

usually understood as the entity in contrast to which an identity is
constructed, and it implies the ability to distinguish between self and not-
self, and consequently to assume the existence of an alternative viewpoint.
III CAN WE REALIZE ALTERITY WITHOUT BEING
ALTERED

• See disease ?
• Handicap
• Loss?
• In geology, erosion by elements that modify the terrain.
• 1 ex of alterity
• Can we realize alterity without being altered?
IV WHAT IS OTHERNESS FOR EVERY CULTURE? OR
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE?

• Teenagers
• Alterity= problem of otherness
• Alterity in life confronting our future
• Lanza del Vasto: all compromises are not bad
• Ex: of a tyre
• “Otherness is interesting if you combine it in a compromise.”
V HEALTH AND WORK

• Berechit: the word

• Thinking
• Doing/working,
• Talking
• Relationship with other
VI ANTHROPOCENE

• Definition?
• Simple definition
• Too much alteration risk of disappearance
• Biotop
• Adapt to the alterity
VII ECOLOGY AND BUSINESS

• Intensive agriculture
• “intensive” culture 
• Pauperization, disppearance
• Gupta, C., & Chattopadhyaya, D. P. (Eds.). (1998). Cultural otherness and
beyond (Vol. 19).
• https://en.unesco.org/courier/2019-3/philosophical-and-ethical-issues-
climate-change