Otherness

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches otherness through the relation between the same and the other. He recalls that in the Sophist, Plato acknowledges that there is sameness insofar as there is otherness, each needing the other1. He asserts that in nature there is only otherness, not identity, and that identity is obtained only by measuring oneself against the greatest otherness: this is how French national feeling is born of the Hundred Years' War2. He describes the shift from "Know thyself", the privilege of identity, to "I is another", the privilege of otherness, in which the modern subject speaks of himself as of another3. The human being, unfinished at birth, is unified by another and for another. He draws practical questions from this. Addressing mute things rather than men amounts to fleeing true otherness4. In the loving gaze as in front of machines, the question is whether one is dealing with someone or with something5.

1. 1O comme Opposition29 Dec 2014 · 10:27
2. 2#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020 · 55:38
3. 3Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 1:37:19
4. 4Mon éco-cabane dans la ZAD : autonomie ou aliénation ? • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani30 Apr 2021 · 18:43
5. 5De Platon à Proust - Lectures à vifs6 Jul 2026 · 32:59

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