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• Preface; Lecture I: Experience of the Other; Opening: Picture magic; The Rise of the Alien in Western History; Linguistic and Conceptual Shades; The Same, the Self and the Ambiguity of Otherness; Alienness as Incarnate Absence; My Own and the Other' s Alienness; Alienness Outside Order and Below Order; Ways of Appropriation; The Paradox of Xenology; Lecture II: Response to the Other; Opening: Refusal of response; Intentionality, Regularity, and Responsivity; Demand and Response; Singularity and Inevitability; Posteriority, Asymmetry, and the Third Party; Responding to What Happens; Lecture III: The Power of Events; Opening: A traffic accident; Getting out of Line; To Whom Something Happens; What Happens between Us; What Takes Place and Proceeds; Lecture IV: Time-Lag; Opening: No first word, no last word; Logos of Time; Time of Speech; Time of the Senses; Time of Forgetting and Remembering; Time of the Other; Lecture V: Bodily Experience between Selfhood and Otherness; Opening: Loss of the face; The Riddle of Our Body; Intentionality and Affection; The Split Self; The Other as My Double; Lecture VI: Violence as Violation; Opening: Sacrifice of human beings; Topics of Violence; Violence between Nature and Culture; Violence and Violation; Collective, Individual, and Anonymous Violence; Normality and Singularity of Violence; Violence under the Sway of Order; Violence in the Shadow of Orders; Lecture VII: Being Here and Elsewhere; Opening: Contract of conquest; Three Historical Space Paradigms; The Multiplicity of the Life-world; Orientated versus Homogeneous Space; Real or Symbolic Space?

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• Preface; Lecture I: Experience of the Other; Opening: Picture magic; The Rise of the Alien in Western History; Linguistic and Conceptual Shades; The Same, the Self and the Ambiguity of Otherness; Alienness as Incarnate Absence; My Own and the Other' s Alienness; Alienness Outside Order and Below Order; Ways of Appropriation; The Paradox of Xenology; Lecture II: Response to the Other; Opening: Refusal of response; Intentionality, Regularity, and Responsivity; Demand and Response; Singularity and Inevitability; Posteriority, Asymmetry, and the Third Party; Responding to What Happens; Lecture III: The Power of Events; Opening: A traffic accident; Getting out of Line; To Whom Something Happens; What Happens between Us; What Takes Place and Proceeds; Lecture IV: Time-Lag; Opening: No first word, no last word; Logos of Time; Time of Speech; Time of the Senses; Time of Forgetting and Remembering; Time of the Other; Lecture V: Bodily Experience between Selfhood and Otherness; Opening: Loss of the face; The Riddle of Our Body; Intentionality and Affection; The Split Self; The Other as My Double; Lecture VI: Violence as Violation; Opening: Sacrifice of human beings; Topics of Violence; Violence between Nature and Culture; Violence and Violation; Collective, Individual, and Anonymous Violence; Normality and Singularity of Violence; Violence under the Sway of Order; Violence in the Shadow of Orders; Lecture VII: Being Here and Elsewhere; Opening: Contract of conquest; Three Historical Space Paradigms; The Multiplicity of the Life-world; Orientated versus Homogeneous Space; Real or Symbolic Space?