The Other, Or How to Dispose of It. A Prolegomena to All Future Alterology That would Like to Present Itself As Phenomenology/Kitas, Arba Kaip Jo Atsikratyti. Prolegomenai Kiekvienai Busimai Alterologijai, Noresianciai Buti Fenomenologija (Report‪)‬

To Giovanna and Nisrine Phenomenology was first an egology (Husserl), then an ontology (Heidegger). Today, it takes the form of an "alterology," that is, an attempt to think alterity as such. The adjective (other) becomes a substantive (the Other). Or better -or worse-, one moves from a relative alterity (other than) to the Other tout court (the absolutely other). This is a strange movement since, even if Plato could take it for granted to just speak about the Same and the Other, we by contrast normally only use the concepts of identity and difference in relation to a concept. For example, we do not simply say that Peter is the Other, but that he is an alter ego, another human being, etc. Conscious of the paradox that arises when one makes an adjective into a noun, when one makes a phenomenon sui generis out of a determination, the alterologists conclude that the thought of alterity obliges us to overthrow our habitual conceptual framework; they conclude that the Other introduces a disorganization into our categories that must be more fundamental than their organization. The thought of alterity would thus force phenomenology to open itself to a beyond or to a before intentionality, being and language.