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What does alterity mean?

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  1. (philosophy) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.
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The term infrahuman has been advanced in a way, to describe those bodies marked by race, whose alterity condemns them to worthlessness.
However cultured and correct our manner of speaking may be, it consists of many borrowed forms, in which identity and alterity intermingle.
The concluding chapter draws together the diverse strands of alterity explored to that point while examining alterity in history.
In the inherited and still influential constructions of Africa, the continent designates difference and alterity.
The narrative view of selfhood has, a further purpose to connect ipseity with alterity.
The point of departure of my work is the necessity to accept and preserve alterity.

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