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Biomedizin
(1998)
In this text the author argues that the emergence of social foreignness is a result of established-outsiders-figuration whereby the foreign is rendered in the Course of violent conflicts. Accordingly, modern forms of communication and mobilization enable the existence of ethnopolitical collective subjects. The starting point of the constmction of the foreign and - at the Same time - the most important sign of difference between the established and the outsiders is a conflicting interpretation of historically granted land rights.
In this study of otherness in the phenomenological philosophy, of Husserl, Derrida, Levinas and Waldenfels, it will be shown, how the other at first becomes a theme within tlie frame of reference defined by intentionalistic Phenomenology, but as a problem, that transcends this frame. Only a phenomenology that is radicalized according to a theory of difference and tumed ethical can make a claim for the radically other, thus preceeding every intentionality and evading any form of systematic thinking.