The Subject of the Other: From Alterity to Heterology

Since the beginning of the modern age of interpretation, intellectuals have developed a dazzling panoply of analytical, hermeneutical and critical models that are available for deployment in our attempt to comprehend what nonetheless may exceed and escape us. Nor is it only toward outward referents...

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Published inJournal of Cultural Studies Vol. 8; no. 1-3; p. 1
Main Author Terdiman, Richard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lagos African Cultural Institute 01.01.2010
Subjects
Linguistics
Literary criticism
Postmodernism
Research methodology
Theory
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Summary:Since the beginning of the modern age of interpretation, intellectuals have developed a dazzling panoply of analytical, hermeneutical and critical models that are available for deployment in our attempt to comprehend what nonetheless may exceed and escape us. Nor is it only toward outward referents that we project our interpretive and analytical instruments. Perhaps, the hardest thing we attempt is to turn these tools of understanding back upon ourselves.
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