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Other Discourses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Gerard Loughlin
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There are ambiguities in the title: Other Discourses. What are these discourses and who speaks them? Discourses of others, of those who are not the same? Discourses by the same about those who are other, and about otherness itself, about an absolute Other, which would also be the other of discourse itself? And then, almost immediately upon these questions, as if folded within them, come other questions. Can we hear the discourses of others, if they really are other? Can we have discourses about others which do not reduce them to the limits of our own discourses? Can there be any discourse about otherness itself, about an absolute Other, if it is indeed the other of discourse, beyond discourse?

Even if it were possible to pursue all these questions in a single essay, this is not that essay. Here I pursue only some of the questions in the direction of the philosophical authorship of Emmanuel Levinas.

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Research Article
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New Blackfriars , Volume 75 , Issue 878 , January 1994 , pp. 18 - 31
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Copyright © 1994 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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