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This book addresses contemporary discourses on a wide variety of topics related to the ideological and epistemological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and the ways in which they have shaped the Spanish language and cultural manifestations in both Spain and Hispanic America. The majority of the chapters are concerned with 'otherness' in its various dimensions; the alien Other - foreign, immigrant, ethnically different, disempowered, female or minor - as well as the Other of dif

International audience ; This article focuses on the representation of Islamic fundamentalism in contemporary Egyptian films. It aims to go beyond orientalism-based studies consumed with analysing the West's representation of, and thus power over, the East. The article problematizes discourses examining fundamentalism's role as the West's Other and the source of its identity by analysing the complicated political role that fundamentalism plays in Egypt as an 'Islamic' democracy. Islamic fundamentalism is explored as an Other in Egyptian cinema that is used as a tool for strengthening Egyptian national identity. The article thus reveals the cultural tensions and power struggles present within Egypt as a nation caught between modernity and extremism. The article's highlighting of the processes of Otherness within the 'East' itself reveals the limitation of the idea of an East/West dichotomy.

This article focuses on the representation of Islamic fundamentalism in contemporary Egyptian films. It aims to go beyond orientalism-based studies consumed with analysing the West's representation of, and thus power over, the East. The article problematizes discourses examining fundamentalism's role as the West's Other and the source of its identity by analysing the complicated political role that fundamentalism plays in Egypt as an 'Islamic' democracy. Islamic fundamentalism is explored as an Other in Egyptian cinema that is used as a tool for strengthening Egyptian national identity. The article thus reveals the cultural tensions and power struggles present within Egypt as a nation caught between modernity and extremism. The article's highlighting of the processes of Otherness within the 'East' itself reveals the limitation of the idea of an East/West dichotomy.

AbstractThis study examines the news broadcasts of the Israeli TV Channel 2. It focuses on coverage of instances in whichHaredi'Jewish ultra-Orthodox' individuals are accused of committing immoral acts such as child abuse, hit and run accident and rape. I argue that in all of these instances, the moral otherness of these individuals is linked to theirHarediidentity, thus intensifying the negative-sectoral otherness of the entireHaredicommunity.I discuss tagging, visual devices and especially discursive strategies used to link individual moral otherness to sectoral otherness at various levels of directness. Additionally, I analyze online comments written by viewers of the items discussed, which indicate the identification and interpretation of implications and implicatures conveyed by this rhetorical linkage.

Cover -- Titelei -- Impressum -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Structure of the work -- 2. The Argument -- 2.1. Philosophical Eros and Will-to-Power: Tyranny and Tragedy -- 2.2. Philosophical Eros and the Other: The Will to Knowledge and the Instrumentalization of the Other -- 2.3. A Defence of Plato: Philosophical Eros and the Vindication of Philosophy -- Wholeness, Tragedy and the Hubris of Philosophy: The Speech of Aristophanes and the first Indictment of Philosophy -- 1. Introducing Aristophanes -- 3.1. Background and Political Affiliations -- 3.2. Aristophanes and Plato: The Clouds of Aristophanes -- 4. The Speech of Aristophanes -- 4.1. Aristophanes Tragic Myth -- 4.2. Rebellion, Punishment, Re-orientation -- 4.3. Philosophy and Poetry -- 4.4. Naming Eros: The Threat of Nihilism -- 4.5. Eros Turranos and Eros Ouranos: Two Erotes or One? -- 5. Eros, Politics and Philosophy -- Defending Philosophy I: Nietzsche's Will-to-Power and Philosophy as Creative Excess -- 1. The Problem of Nietzsche and Socrates -- 1.1. Introducing Nietzsche -- 1.2. The Problem of Nietzsche -- 1.3. Nietzsche, Socrates, Plato -- 2. Philosophy as Spiritual Sovereignty -- 2.1. Philosophy in the Birth of Tragedy -- 2.2. Revolutions in Nietzsche's Thought: Re-evaluating the Need for Justification -- 2.3. The 'Yes' and the 'No' to Life: Vitalism, Eros and Will-To-Power -- 2.4. Cultural Critique and the Transvaluation of Values -- 3. The Place of Socrates in the Later Thought of Nietzsche -- 3.1. Socrates as Cultural Critic -- 3.2. Philosophical Eros: Philosophy as Refined Will-To-Power -- 3.3. The Turn to Philosophy: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks -- 3.4. The Later Works and Affirmation as Self-affirmation -- 3.5. Platonic Eros and Will-To-Power -- 3.6. Overthrowing the Gods and Dionysian Chaos.

Otherness is a deceptively simple concept. Ostensibly it refers to someone else, who is, in an ultimate sense, unknowable. But, there are many ways in which the self-other boundary is blurred. First, self is already other from the standpoint of the other. Second, in so far as perspective taking is possible, there is some otherness within the self, and some self within the other. Third, when people talk and think they routinely move between the perspectives of self and other, changing and shifting perspectives, and leveraging one perspective against the other. Overall, the core challenge for conceptualising otherness is that it does not exist without the self. Otherness is not 'in' the perspective of the other rather it is a two-sided relational quality that arises between the shifting perspectives of self and other.