Strangers
The Social Construction of Universality and Particularity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049860 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zygmunt Bauman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 1988 |
| Issue | 78 |
| Pages | 7-42 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/1288078007 |
| OpenAlex | W2334749167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
Most of our contemporaries are strangers. Little do we know of their life, less still do we understand. We assume that, were we to communicate with them, we would need to overcome mutual misunderstandings — an obstacle arising from the unclarity, or perhaps even the impenetrability of signs that denote each side's intentions. We can imagine this kind of difficulty if we use a foreign language as a metaphor, or if we recall a visit to a land where a foreign language is spoken. The difficulty with reaching agreement as to the proper form of life, which provides the substance for the image of stranger, is patterned after the difficulty of understanding an unfamiliar language. As Wittgenstein suggested, to understand is to know how to go on
Aesthetics · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Obstacle · Recall · Sociology · Universality (dynamical systems · Communication · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The fetishisation and universalisation of the stranger
Los desechados del mundo. Imágenes del paria
Dialogue across Differences
Dwa pojęcia Obcego w myśli socjologicznej
The loneliness of Joker
Combining the dialogic and the dialectic
Fragmentary Encounters in a Moral World
Breaking the Silence
Strangers and Necropolitics in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
Remembering in-between
Urban governance and economic development in the diverse city
The impact of `exile' on thought
Being in Public
Borders as Both Site and Method
Talmudic Territory? Space, Law, and Modernist Discourse
Privileged Nomads
Dwelling in Movement
Vida y pensamiento desde la extranjería
Historical Fictions of Autonomy and the Europeanization of National History
Teachers in Conference
Multiculturalism and Social Integration in Europe
On postmodern liberal conservatism
The experience of homecoming in Teju Cole'sEvery Day Is for the Thief
Sometimes a Community and Sometimes a Battlefield
Zygmunt Bauman
Accounting for differences
Strangers and Strangership
Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Cross-cultural Subject
From guanxi to lianjie
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |