The Other

The infinity of the Other allowed Levinas to derive other aspects of philosophy and science as secondary to that ethic; thus:. The others that obsess me in the Other do not affect me as examples of the same genus united with my neighbor, by resemblance or common nature, individuations of the human race, or chips off the old block The others concern me from the first. Here, fraternity precedes the commonness of a genus. My relationship with the Other as neighbor gives meaning to my relations with all the others.

Derrida proposed that the absolute alterity of the Other is compromised because the Other is other than the Self and the group. That logical problem has especially negative consequences in the realm of human geography when the Other person is denied ethical priority in geopolitical discourse. Hence, the use of the language of Otherness in the anthropological discourse Oriental Studies about Western encounters with non—Western cultures preserves the dominantor—dominated discourse of hegemony , just as misrepresenting the feminine as Other reasserts male privilege as primary in social discourse.

In The Colonial Present: Bush — to the terrorist attacks on 11 September reinforced philosophic divisions of connotation and denotation that perpetuated the negative representation of the non-Western Other, when he rhetorically asked the U. President Bush's rhetorical question led the U. To build a conceptual framework around a notion of Us-versus-Them is, in effect, to pretend that the principal consideration is epistemological and natural—our civilization is known and accepted, theirs is different and strange—whereas, in fact, the framework separating us from them is belligerent, constructed, and situational.

The contemporary, world system of post-colonial , nation-states with interdependent politics and economies was preceded by the European imperial system of colonies settler and economic in which "the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationship, usually between states, and often in the form of an empire, [was] based on domination and subordination. The imperial conquest of "non-white" countries was intellectually justified with the fetishization of the Eastern world, which was effected with cultural generalizations that divided the peoples of the world into the artificial, binary relationship of "The Eastern World and The Western World", the dichotomy which identified, designated, and subordinated the peoples of the Orient as the Other—as the non—European Self.

The practice of Othering was the prevalent cultural perspective of the European imperial powers, which was supported by the fabrications of scientific racism , such as the pseudo-intellectual belief that the size of the cranium of the non—European Other was indicative of the inferior intelligence of the coloured peoples designated as the non-white Other. In , the United Nations officially declared that the differences among the races were insignificant in relation to the anthropological sameness among the peoples who are the human race.

Despite this declaration, in the U. Othering distinctions prevail, especially in government forms that ask a U. Maintaining an empire requires the cultural subordination of the Other into the subaltern native the colonized people , which facilitates the exploitation of their labour, of their lands, and of the natural resources of their country as a colony of the motherland. To realise those ends, the process of Othering culturally justifies the domination and subordination of the native people, by placing them as the Other at the social periphery of the geopolitical enterprise that is colonial imperialism.

The colonizer creates the Other with a false dichotomy of "native weakness" social and political, cultural and economic against the "colonial strength" of imperial power , which can be resolved only with the noblesse oblige of racialism—the "moral responsibility" that psychologically authorizes the colonialist Self to unilaterally assume a civilizing mission to educate, convert, and culturally assimilate the Other into the empire, thus making the Other the Self.

In the praxis of colonialism , the native populace constitute the Other whom the colonizers mean to dominate in order to civilise and save them in the course of exploiting the natural and human resources of the natives' homeland. The existential philosopher Simone de Beauvoir applied Hegel 's conception of "the Other" as a constituent part of self-consciousness to describe a male-dominated culture that represents Woman as the sexual Other in relation to Man. In the cultural context of the Man—Woman binary relation, the sexual Other is a minority , the least-favoured social group, usually the women of the community, because "a man represents both the positive and the neutral, as indicated by the common use of [the word] Man to designate human beings in general; whereas [the word] Woman represents only the negative, defined by limiting criteria, without reciprocity" from the first sex, from Man.

The Second Sex In , Betty Friedan substantiated the ordinate—subordinate nature of the Man—Woman sexual relation as social identity. When queried about their post-graduate lives, the majority of women interviewed, at a university-class reunion, used binary gender language, and referred to and identified themselves as their roles wife, mother, manager in the private sphere.

They did not identify their own achievements career, job, business in the public sphere of life. Unawares, the women had conventionally automatically identified themselves as the social Other. Although the nature of the social Other is influenced by the society's social constructs social class , sex , gender , as a human organisation, society holds the power social and political to formally change the social relation between the male-defined Self and Woman , the non-male Other.

The Feminine Mystique The feminist philosopher Cheshire Calhoun deconstructed the concept of "the Other" as the female-half of the binary-gender relation of the "Man and Woman" concept. Deconstruction of the word Woman —from subordinate in the "Man and Woman" relation—conceptually reconstructed the female Other as the Woman who exists independently of male definition rationalisation ; independent of the patriarchy who formally realise female subordination with binary-gender usages of the word Woman.

In the essay "Feminism is Humanism. So Why the Debate? In feminist definition, Women are the Other but not the Hegelian Other and are not existentially defined by the demands of Man. Women are the social Other who unknowingly accept subjugation as part of subjectivity. Hence, the harm of Othering arises from the asymmetric nature of sex and gender roles, which arises accidentally and "passively" from natural and unavoidable intersubjectivity. The social-exclusion function of Othering a person or a social group from society, for being different from the norm of the Self , is understood in the socio-economic functions of gender a social construct and sex biological reality.

In a society where heterosexuality is the social norm, "the Other" refers to and identifies the same-sex orientation, lesbians women who love women and gays men who love men , people identified as "deviant" from the binary socio-sexual norm. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.

Everything she believes unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves. A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. Newlyweds are terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a large house that was the site of a grisly mass murder a year before. Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.

The Thomas family goes out to their cabin in the woods to celebrate Christimas together with their daughter and her boyfriend, but their first Christmas together may be their last. Washed-up true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt finds a box of super 8 home movies that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the s. A group of longtime friends converge on a fatal course with destiny when they cross paths with Alexander Tatum, a mercenary surgeon.

He is a hunter with the keen skill of one who has also A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle.

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The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences. I'll have to admit that I put off watching this movie despite being told by several friends that it was pretty good and worth checking out.

That's mostly because "scary" movies usually turn out to be nothing but crap riddled, cheap thrill fests with terrible acting by actors just looking for their next handout However, I was pleasantly surprised. First off, I'd like to say that I have yet to see The Sixth Sense, so I cannot comment on any similarities between the two films that I have heard exist.

Grace Kidman and her two young photosensitive X. As a result of the children's very rare and dangerous skin condition, all of the house's curtains must be shut during the day and all of the doors must be closed and locked to prevent any accidental solar exposure to the children.

Despite the warnings from her children and new found servants, strange things begin to happen in the house which Grace chooses not to accept or investigate Sooner or later, she will have to come to terms with what's going on Kidman's acting is admirable in this movie, and although I usually have a hard time enjoying her films, I felt she did a very decent job here.

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I think she was born to play a stubborn, hard nosed, uptight tart, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I especially enjoyed the acting performances from both of the children. Both are talented child actors and were definitely helped by the script which captured what it's like to be a child. I was constantly reminded of my own childhood amongst the belittling and teasing between the two, and of course the naive and adorable fears.

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The film is shot beautifully and has a lot of atmosphere, partly due to the fact that since the children are photosensitive, the house must always be dark, and the director definitely likes to play with that. There's something else that helps the film's atmosphere as well, the fog, which obviously adds to the general spookiness. But I'll leave that one alone as it plays an important role herein. The score helps as well, and is well placed and executed.

Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The Other by Thomas Tryon. The Other by Thomas Tryon. Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.

Originally published in , The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable recreation of small-town life and its skillful handling of the theme of perso Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it. Its impeccable recreation of small-town life and its skillful handling of the theme of personality transference between thirteen-year-old twins led to widespread critical acclaim for the novel, which was successfully filmed from Thomas Tryon's own screenplay.

This edition features original artwork by surrealist artist Harry O. Mass Market Paperback , pages. Published October 1st by Dell first published Connecticut , United States. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Other , please sign up. This question contains spoilers… view spoiler [Was the ending supposed to suggest that it was actually Holland who survived, or that Niles assumed Holland's complete identity the way Norman Bates assumed his mom's identity at the end of the original Psycho?

Mark Gruben This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [ Holland is dead, of course, so at the end it is Niles who is watching the aftermath of the barn fire. But it's Holland - or, rather, the Holland half …more Holland is dead, of course, so at the end it is Niles who is watching the aftermath of the barn fire. But it's Holland - or, rather, the Holland half of Niles' personality - who has now taken over Niles' body. Holland was always the more assertive twin, and therefore Holland is now inhabiting Niles' life.

See all 3 questions about The Other…. Lists with This Book. Indeed for identical twins, very. Oh yes, there were the mixed signs, on the cusp, as one says--they should have been more alike; nevertheless, the difference. Holland a Pisces, fish-slippery, now one thing, now another. Niles an Aries, a ram blithely butting at obstacles. Growing side by side, but somehow not together.

Time and again Holland would retreat, Niles pursue, Holland withdraw again, reticent, taciturn, a snail in its shell. For those of you that have traveled these nail biting, shadow ridden, teeth chattering, knee knocking trails with me you are in for a real treat if you DARE to read this book. I certainly do not want to give away anything that will take away that growing sense of unease you will experience reading this book. The other very pleasant surprise is how well written the book is. It is certainly on par with The Shining and maybe because it has a more gothic bend to the tale the literary value just naturally rises in my eyes.

The first-appearing lightning was no more than a snap. Clouds like blue-black ink had spilled out of the west, spreading before the hot wind, now doing violence to the orchard. It hurled apples to the ground like bombs, cracked limbs, scattered leaves in a panic, bowed the long grass as it swept up through the meadow past the barn, shook the tops of the firs, rattled the horse-chestnut tree in a frenzy, punished the grapes in the arbor. The sound of a shingle splitting, ending with an enormous crack, followed by a low booming roll. Now a lurid light washed the black shapes outside; they glowed eerily.

Niles shut his eyes, waiting for the clap to follow. Before it died, the rain came; long shafts like arrows arching down the sky, stinging wet and cold in his face. It brought back memories of Kansas storms from when I was a kid that used to appear on the horizon as black, boiling, menacing, living creatures that would swoop down on us like wraiths hurling hailstones, battering us with rain, and making us shiver with deep booming thunder that would rattle glass and bone. Movie poster from So the twins are very different from one another, but their actions allow the adults to tell them apart.

He had been stabbed by his cousin Russell with a pencil and some of the graphite had nestled under the skin creating a tattoo, a dot that will never go away. I too have a blue black graphite dot on my wrist. I was stabbed by Dean P. My Graphite tattoo from Fifth Grade. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dean was a child of varying mood which ranged from just generally pissed off to downright nasty. He came over and sat down beside me and then with one swift motion plunged his pencil into my wrist.

I shoved him open handed in the jaw that knocked him off his chair. We came within a whisker of going to see the principal which would have been my second trip that year. There was an earlier incident involving an errantly thrown snowball that I had, with what eloquence I possessed then, to explain. Interesting part of the story is that both Dean and I made the varsity basketball team our junior year in high school and we both started every game together our senior year as well.

It was an uneasy alliance, but one that worked born out of a mutual desire to win.

Niles spends a lot of time in reflection, building his imagination, and honing his view of the world. Water and muck are just what they seem to most people, but to Niles It was pleasant there in the shadows. It smelled of coolness, like a fern garden; like the well once had before they sealed it up. From upside down, one piling, gloved with green algae and slime, and larger than the rest, seemed to rear back as though resisting the gray mud that mired it.

He squinted, looked hard, saw: He drifted, dreamed; and dreamed some more. The book is so much more than I expected. The Twins have an addiction to Doc Savage books and comics. I remember when I first found a cache of Kenneth Robeson titles with this bronze skinned hero on the cover always with a tattered shirt and lurid graphics to spur the imagination. I read through scads of them and wish I still had those books. I doubt they would hold up well reading them today, but then they were perfect for a boy who wanted to explore the magic of science and the pure pleasure of rooting for Doc Savage to outsmart a myriad of diabolical villains.

A sampling of Doc Savage covers So you may be able to tell that this book worked on many levels for me. Certainly I am encouraged to read more Tryon and can only hope his other work casts the same spell on me as this one. Not for any of us. All that was before is past now. It went too far. Everything has gone too far.

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It must stop, do you see? View all 63 comments. Stephanie aka WW I, too, love this book. Thanks for introducing more readers to it.

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Sep 05, Jeffrey Keeten Stephanie aka WW wrote: Hopefully it is working! Stephanie aka WW wrote: Hopefully it is working!! This year I was determined to read it and boy am I glad did!! Holland and Niles are twin boys growing up during the thirties. As with most twins, they seem to have a certain telepathy between them.

However, they have very different dispositions. Holland is the instigator, while Niles dutifully follows his lead. Unfortunately, they lost their father in a tragic accident which has left their mother in a state of mental shock. Under these circumstances they are pretty much left to their own devices. As a result, the boys seem to have drifted further apart, especially after Holland's disturbing tendencies escalate. Not only that, their family has been plagued by more and more tragedy. The boys, while directly affected by these sad occurrences often cope by playing a game with their grandmother in which they pretend to be animals or even plants or flowers, literally transferring themselves onto these objects with their minds and imaginations.

But, as our narrator relates these events, we are uncertain if all is as we have presumed it to be, if we can even trust the storyteller, but worse still, we are held helplessly spellbound as we imagine what emotional punch will be served up next and by whom- While everyone says this is a fantastic horror novel, perfect for Halloween reading, it is yet another one of those stories devoid of traditional supernatural elements.

In fact, this one could just as easily fall into the psychological thriller category. However, it has some truly stunning twist that no psychological thriller written today has the capacity to challenge.

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Remember, this book was published in and without any prior knowledge of the contents or context of the story, I literally gasped out loud on a couple of occasions, and physically experienced goosebumps! Although the fantasy of immersing oneself into a role- the game the boys played with their grandmother, but which expanded much, much further, was contained within the era in which the book was set- but it seemed like an eerie premonition of immersive video game play, when the projection of oneself onto a fantasy character occasionally went horribly awry, where the person was no longer able to separate fantasy from reality.

Or it could just be another evil child or a Jekyll and Hyde spin, or a chameleon style tale. The long and short of it is- this is a really twisted tale. For its time, it is a thought provoking, smart thriller, and I can see why it has remained to popular all these years. Interesting trivia- a movie was made, based on this book. It was shown frequently on television in the seventies, but while the author helped write the screenplay, he was not happy with the movie adaptation. View all 48 comments.