Alteridad El Otro en Enrique Dussel y la Negatividad en Byung Chul Han

Abstract

A hermeneutic analysis of Otherness in the work of Enrique Dussel and Byung Chul Han. The main philosophical assumptions of these authors' works are identified with categories such as Totality, Exteriority, Modernity, and Transmodernity in the projects of the Argentine philosopher and the South Korean philosopher: Positivity, Negativity, Inactivity, and Dialectic. Their close relationship with Otherness in their proposals is examined. Convergences and divergences are found within these categories, allowing for a detailed understanding of the Hegelian dialectic as a movement and the importance of each of its moments (affirmation, negation, and negation of negation) for the emergence of distinct otherness, taking as a source Levinasian thought, which emphasizes ethics as the first philosophy, metaphysical rather than ontological. In this way, the violence of the totalizing totality of modern and contemporary thought is highlighted, as it fetishizes being and conceals non-being, that is, the Other as the absolutely distinct. Finally, we want to clarify the importance of dialectics at the moment of negation to generate new movements such as the analectic to transform those reproduced and reaffirmed by the sameness of the contemporary world.