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Fremdheit in einer scheinbar vertrauten Sprache - Sprachliche Folgen der Teilung Deutschlands
(1997)
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This survey of German sociological literature on the foreign considers the construction of foreigness from the standpoint of systems theory. The author focuses on two primary distinctions: familiarity/unfamiliarity and inclusion/exclusion. In the first case, the general standard for a System theory of the foreign is the unfamiliar;on a second level, the specific modem construction of the foreign unfolds the paradox of the familiarity with the unfamiliar.
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.