Abstract
"The other" is one of the most important key words in contemporary Western literary criticism. This paper puts the term in context and explores its different uses and connotations in Plato and Hegel's philosophy, phenomenology-existentialism, post-structuralism as well as in postcolonial criticism and feminism. The paper points out that "the other" is a relational concept and exists in two groups of relationships. One is the relation between the One/Same and the Other, and the other is the relation between the Self/Subject and the Other. The latter may be the specific display of the former. "The other" has three closely connected attributes of differentiality, subsidiarity and constitutivity, with different emphases in different contexts. The paper cautions that fuller understanding of the concept and the theory about it may be reached only through differentiated interpretations of the usages and meanings of the term in different contexts before the theorization of the concept can become a cultivatable resources.
First Page
166
Last Page
172
Recommended Citation
Hu, Yamin, and Xiang Xiao. 2013. "Mutiple Faces of "The Other"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (4): pp.166-172. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss4/10
