Otherism
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Otherism is a word used in several ways:
- It is a direct translation of altruism, and is sometimes used synonymously.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson used it to describe the process by which an individual is depersonalized or alienated due to their place in society.[1] This alientation can be embodied as prejudice against the other (analogous to sexism and racism).[2]
- In 2005 Ezri Tarazi co-founded an industrial design movement called Otherism.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ William E. Bridges in Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd, On Emerson, Duke University Press, 1988, p141. ISBN 0822308614
- ^ Dennis McCort, Going Beyond the Pairs: The Coincidence of Opposites in German Romanticism, Zen amd Deconstruction, SUNY Press, 2001, p101. ISBN 0791450015
