Alterity The term alterity derives from the Latin word alter , which means "other." In contemporary philosophy the question of the other is primarily that of the other human being, the Other ( Autrui , in French), although some thinkers...

Alterity is a philosophical term meaning 'otherness', strictly being in the sense of the other of two (Latin alter). It is generally now taken as the philosophical principle of exchanging one's own perspective for that of the "other." The concept was...

Ah Love! could you and I with fate conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits--and then Re-mold it nearer to the Heart's desire? --Omar Khayam, Rubayat Europe, or the Western World, or...

ALTERED STATE. By Matthew Collin and John Godfrey. Serpent's Tail; 314 pages; K10.99 and $16.99 THE title "Altered State" is appropriate for a book that sets out to document the effects of a small pill on the culture of a nation. The...

Rejecting a wave of criticisms, the government has agreed to only modest changes in the computerized system that assesses whether each American who travels abroad poses a terrorist threat.The Homeland Security Department decided to keep the risk assessments for 15 years instead of 40 years...

A staff photographer for The Blade who digitally altered a front-page photo has resigned, the newspaper said Monday.Allan Detrich had told Blade editors that he altered a photo of a college baseball team for his personal files and mistakenly sent it to the newspaper.The photo...