Saving the Lost Ones
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11896288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Glendinning (0000-0002-2312-1839, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-109 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Literary Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-1498 • E-ISSN: 1757-1634 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/olr.2022.0379 |
| OpenAlex | W4283269892 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In an essay on the modern idea of political equality, Bernard Williams contrasts what he calls ‘the human point of view’ with a point of view marked by what he calls a ‘technical or professional attitude’. While the latter is concerned with conspicuous structures of someone’s life that might be by occupied by another, the former concerns an attitude towards a singular person, what Wittgenstein calls ‘an attitude towards a soul’ – an attitude characteristically exemplified in the relation to the other who is a friend. It is the one who is in view under such a singularising gaze that seems to be lost as soon as we start counting others, counting our friends. The paper explores the general haunting of the modern-Western idea of all people’s equality by the hazy spectre of what is disclosed by this singularising gaze, and asks how we might organise a response politically to the in each case unique and singular relation to the unique and singular other we call the friend – the one who is both altogether other and my equal
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Gaze · Point (geometry · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Sociology · Soul · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |