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Revisiting Solaris: Encountering Otherness and the Limits of Representation [PDF]

open access: yesProfil, 2021
One of the core themes of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Solaris is the encounter with radical otherness. The ocean planet being studied by scientists from earth is usually interpreted as a representation of radical otherness, which eludes human efforts of ...
Monika Anna Slawkowska-Rode   +1 more
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Las niñas del Inglewood: tráfico infantil y femenino en China y el “comercio de culíes” a Cuba (1855)

open access: yesHistoria contemporánea, 2023
El presente artículo se centra en el tráfico de cuarenta y cuatro niñas chinas en el buque inglés Inglewood, organizado por intermediarios portugueses, británicos y chinos en Ningbo, y descubierto por autoridades británicas en Xiamen en 1855.
Mònica Ginés-Blasi
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Aporias, Transcendence and a Curriculum of Hospitality

open access: yesNorthwest Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
Engaging in dynamic encounters with the other and otherness in education—an issue of creating an aperture that welcomes “a newcomer” either as a new idea or new practice—is important for the field of curriculum studies.
Wanying Wang, Daniel Ness
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Perception of otherness - the role of personality and demographic variables

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction The idea that personality can influence our perception of ‘otherness’ is widely accepted within the literature of social sciences. Undoubtedly, the principle of dehumanization played an important role in genocides during the 20th and 21st ...
M. Preiss, N. Doubková, J. Jonáš
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Otherness In Miskin Al-Daramis Poetry

open access: yesJournal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature, 2023
The research aims to study otherness Miskin Al-Darami's poetry by interrogating the poetic text and monitoring the relationship between the poet's self and the harmonious otherness at one time and the oppositional one at another, and to ...
Ghazyah AL-Thobaiti
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Polysemy of the Other: Endō Shūsaku’s Encounter with the West

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2013
The paper discusses the polysemy of the categories of otherness and the Other in selected works of a Japanese contemporary writer, Endō Shūsaku (1923–1996).
Justyna Weronika Kasza
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Witchcraft or Otherness

open access: yesActa Neophilologica, 2023
Tituba, a supporting character in Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible, can be associated with the concept of otherness in several respects. For one, she is not free like the rest of the population of Salem, Massachusetts, where the play is set, but ...
Tomaž Onič
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Otherness in Autism: From the Fellow Human-Being to the Other Synthesis [PDF]

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2021
The present article investigates an essential question raised by the experience of the psychoanalytic clinic of autism: otherness. The goal of this research is to establish the specificity and the variety of forms of otherness in autism.
Andréa Di Pietro, Angélica Bastos
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Responsibility, God and society: The cry of the Other in the sacred texts as a challenge towards responsible global citizenship

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009
The article seeks to respond to the question: What role can the sacred texts play in the construction of a Christian identity that is responsible to the Other in a pluralistic global world?
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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Kręgi obcości w Extensie Jacka Dukaja [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Slavic Studies, 2019
When reading Extensa (2002) by Jacek Dukaj and acquainting with its communicational and artistic implications, the reader becomes aware of relativization of otherness, as a result of the very essence of what the Other is.
Adam Mazurkiewicz
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