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Experience of the Alien in Husserl's Phenomenology

Experience of the Alien in Husserl's Phenomenology 19 Experience of the Alien in Husserl's Phenomenology BERNHARD WALDENFELS Ruhr-Universtät Bochum The alien (das Fremde) is a perplexing phenomenon that tracked down Husserl more than he tracked it. This curiosity will be the theme of our reflections as we inquire with Husserl into the thing itself. The alien is related to the uncanny. In part enticing, in part threatening, it belongs to the constant challenges of a human experience that is never entirely at home in its world. One can react to the alien in a variety of ways: one can flee or pursue, fend it off or hold it in regard. A vast spectrum of possibilities unfolds between xenophobia and xenophilia. The alien becomes virulent in those life and historical phases in which orders fluctuate and supports of order totter. Shifts of order pull shifts of alienness in its wake, with all the signs of ambivalence. The semantic field of the alien, which reaches far beyond the confines of philosophy, speaks a clear language: it extends from clinical or social alienation (Entfremdung) to the artistic craft of alienation ( Verfremdung) to the infant's shying away from strangers (Fremdeln) to the strange bewilderments (Befremdlichkeiten) of everyday life. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Research in Phenomenology Brill

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© 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0085-5553
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10.1163/156916490X00027
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19 Experience of the Alien in Husserl's Phenomenology BERNHARD WALDENFELS Ruhr-Universtät Bochum The alien (das Fremde) is a perplexing phenomenon that tracked down Husserl more than he tracked it. This curiosity will be the theme of our reflections as we inquire with Husserl into the thing itself. The alien is related to the uncanny. In part enticing, in part threatening, it belongs to the constant challenges of a human experience that is never entirely at home in its world. One can react to the alien in a variety of ways: one can flee or pursue, fend it off or hold it in regard. A vast spectrum of possibilities unfolds between xenophobia and xenophilia. The alien becomes virulent in those life and historical phases in which orders fluctuate and supports of order totter. Shifts of order pull shifts of alienness in its wake, with all the signs of ambivalence. The semantic field of the alien, which reaches far beyond the confines of philosophy, speaks a clear language: it extends from clinical or social alienation (Entfremdung) to the artistic craft of alienation ( Verfremdung) to the infant's shying away from strangers (Fremdeln) to the strange bewilderments (Befremdlichkeiten) of everyday life.

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Research in Phenomenology – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1990

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