Understanding Narratively,Understanding Alterity |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Philip?LewinEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Visiting Associate Professor of Liberal Studies, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan USA, 49401 |
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Abstract: | Phenomenology's systematic exploration of how a world comes into existence for knowers – knowers who are often conceptualized as individual and ostensibly isolated – requires that it provide some account of the constitution of alterity. In this paper, I address this issue by arguing that we apperceive alterity in terms of the intentionality of behavior. A corollary of this argument is that the apperception of an alter as specifically human is a secondary attribution, following the primary apperception of intention. I further argue that the intentionality of behavior is understood through the projection of a narrative frame, or a “protonarrative,” onto the alter's behavior. I suggest that protonarrativity is the form that experience takes as its ontological condition. Our living is not simply known to us reflectively as protonarrative; rather, experience is lived as protonarrative.This essay is based on a paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Memphis, Tennessee, October 28–30, 2004. |
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Keywords: | alterity constitution of the other intentionality knower narrative frame otherness phenomenology protonarrative |
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