Being other

Intersubjectivity, allocentrism and the possible

Bibliographic Data

ID8975657
AuthorsVlad Petre Glăveanu (0000-0002-6029-6718, Webster University Geneva Switzerland, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume49
Issue4
Pages443-459
Publication date2019-06-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jtsb.12221
OpenAlexW2953218048
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited27

This paper engages with the issues of intersubjectivity by raising three main questions about it: What is the status of the other and of the perspective of the other? How would a social ontology that starts from the other look like? and What is the relation between intersubjectivity and the possible? In addressing these questions, I propose four main approaches to self–other relations, each one focused on a different set of theories of intersubjectivity: cognitive (being self), pragmatist (becoming other), dialogical (becoming self), and allocentric (being other). Their main premises, processes, theories and proponents, as well as implications for ethics and the emergence of novelty, are reflected on in turn. Allocentrism emerges as a useful way to shift the focus from self to other in discussions of intersubjectivity, as an ontological condition of the possible, but also as a difficult position to adopt in practice, particularly in polarized societies

Dialogical self · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Intersubjectivity · Novelty · Perspective (graphical · Pragmatism · Relation (database · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity