alterity

• “Ward contends that sameness, not alterity, is the primary force that consolidated a cohesive British identity by psychologically binding Britain with its white settler communities across the globe (245).”

  Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece'

• “Indeed, my hermeneutic principles, which insist that any notion of alterity is inevitably determined by reference to the subject who constructs it and thus by reference to our present, forbid me to imagine, let alone to lobby for, any such transcendental object of historical knowledge and desire.”

  'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'

• “Sha's criticism of the fetishization of alterity is a familiar theme in the history of hermeneutics; Paul Ricoeur, for example, describes the "illusion ... that puts an end to our collusion with the past and creates a situation comparable to the objectivity of the natural sciences, on the grounds that a loss of familiarity is a break with the contingent" (74).”

  Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_

• “These two moments of selection suggest that alterity is — like a self-conscious objectivity — a composite of the historian's desire and the object of that desire.”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “Moreover, I will show how in Shelley's essay, alterity is a strategy for controlling the traffic between identity and alterity, rather than a quasi-objective form of otherness.”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “He has thus refined his notion of alterity from a "priggish" one that would not acknowledge any resemblance (14) between ancient paederasty and modern homosexuality, to an alterity that now "acknowledge [s], promote [s], and support [s] a heterogeneity of queer identities, past and present”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “This epistemological question acquires greater urgency in a climate in which identity and identification are such suspect terms, a climate in which alterity is always already a defensive posture.”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “I have argued that alterity is a post-modern form of objectivity in that it claims to deliver difference even as it controls the traffic between identity and difference.”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “But exactly how much alterity is necessary to do this?”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “I juxtapose Halperin's version of Greek alterity with Davidson's precisely because both versions together allow us to consider how alterity is necessarily selective.”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

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