Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:40:51 -0800
Subject: Re: new .sig


Edward Moore wrote:
> 
> >The alterity of the other evokes the threat of extinction to the
> >extent that this very alterity speaks to that which is in us more >than
> we are in ourselves.
> 
> Is that really the "threat of extinction" or rather the possibility of
> extending the boundaries of the self?  We grasp the other in a way in
> which we are unable to grasp or under-stand ourselves.  By meeting the
> other and speaking to him/her (of what is a mystery to us) we meet the
> other which we harbor within ourselves as an unknown.  And in this
> meeting we grasp the other within, and we grow.
> 
> >Striking out at the other is denying at the
> >top of our lungs what we are but can not know.
> 
> I would not say "denial" but rather defense, a movement of protection
> against something which we perceive as external to ourselves.  Striking
> out at the other is like the turning away from death in a movement of
> hope, heroic hope (see Levinas, 'Time and the Other') -- a movement of
> defense against a mystery which seems as a threat to the self, but which
> also may be grasped as the possibility of extending the self.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Edward Moore
> monsieurtexteEM-AT-hotmail.com
> 
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Director Mike Leigh ("Secrets and Lies") outlines a screenplay, then
lets his actors develop the dialogue. They commence, each actor having
in mind a set of "knowns" and "unknowns" about the other with whom
he/she
is developing the on-screen conversations.  

Consider also the knowns and unknowns re: one's own self, always in
play in self-dialogue or with others.

Illustrates how human beings "endowed with speech" have so much trouble
knowing who they are, who the other is, what they want to say, and
and finding the phrases.