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What does alterity mean?

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  1. (philosophy) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.
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The austerity of your terrifying secret, of Devisch's position on alterity.
In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar.
In the inherited and still influential constructions of Africa, the continent designates difference and alterity.
However cultured and correct our manner of speaking may be, it consists of many borrowed forms, in which identity and alterity intermingle.
The narrative view of selfhood has, a further purpose to connect ipseity with alterity.
In addition, we include among others: culture, hermeneutics, identity, alterity, hybridity.

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