About a century after Columbus landed in an island of the Americas, Montaigne reconsidered various aspects of the encounter with the Other by commenting on travel narratives reporting on such experiences. Like many contemporaries writing about the implications of these events, he had a specific political and religious agenda in mind, yet his views onRead more
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Alterity in Question: “The Universe as Other: How Science Has Constructed a View of Reality Radically Divergent from Our Experience” The more we understand about the universe, the more alien it seems. Modern cosmology has revealed a universe much larger than the world of our experience, dominated by things like “dark matter” and “dark energy”Read more