Nerazumevanje in obvladovanje tujega. Iz-rednost na ozadju modernega mišljenja reda

Nerazumevanje in obvladovanje tujega. Iz-rednost na ozadju modernega mišljenja reda

Andraž Dolinšek

The article discusses the changes in the concept of the alien as it relates to forms of order analyzed by Waldenfels as well as to philosophical hermeneutics developed by Gadamer. The absolutization of the alien is observed through the lens of colonialism as critiqued by Achille Mbembe. The author also introduces the concept of “production” of the absolutely alien, which no longer arises only through the transition from the relative to absolute alien, but is from the ordinary itself. The process of production is critically examined through the example of the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing the concepts of immunization and the state of exception. Exposing hermeneutics to the questions of power and the political and utilizing the concept of disagreement as proposed by Rancière, allows for a reinterpretation of the absolutely alien as being something extra-ordinary, yet always present in the constitution of the modern order as well as of all forms of understanding.

2020

order, Colonialism, disagreement, the alien, the extra-ordinary

10.32022/PHI29.2020.114-115.4

Phainomena

Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities

Philosophy. Psychology. Religion