A Taste of the Other

Abstract

Buber, Sartre, Greimas: three authors with from very different horizons (albeit indebted to the same phenomenological episteme) that open up essential perspectives related to the question of the “other.” In order to restore an “I-You” relationship within itself and any “other” it does not suffice that the latter appears in front of the former as someone different due to its language, opinions, or, less concisely, due to a certain way of being, unique to its own person or cultural characteristic.

There is still something even more elemental missing that cannot but situate it self within the deepest level in which the alterity of the other makes itself felt en bloc, independent of all comparison and analysis. A semiotics of the presence and aesthesis endeavors to construct itself starting from an analysis of this type of intuitive elements.