We as Self: Ouri, Intersubjectivity, and Presubjectivity

✍ Scribed by Hye Young Kim

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

We as Self argues for a notion of we-ness based not on a self-centered or a self-less point of view, in which the “we” is only either a collection of individuals or an anonymous whole, but on “relation.” This relation is pre-subjective, meaning that the conscious, reflective, subjective self is not the conceptual basis of the relation. The irreducible metaphysical distinction between self and other is always there, but the awareness of it is not prior to this relation, which is an ontological pre-condition of self. Hye Young Kim demonstrates that the distinction and unity of self and other in this relation can be comprehended spatially by applying knot logic. The author analyzes certain linguistic practices in Korean to show one representation of pre-subjective we-ness in language, but not in an ethnographical manner. By doing so, the author criticizes and challenges the Eurocentric tendency of philosophy and contributes to efforts to expand diversity in philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 We in Korean? Why?
1. We
2. Language
3. Alternative Reference Points
4. In Korean
5. Translation of Philosophy
Notes
Chapter 2 We in Korean
1. Ouri in Korean
2. Our Husband
3. Inclusive and Exclusive We
4. Two Levels of We-ness in Conversation
5. Jeohi
6. Nosism
Notes
Chapter 3 Self in Korean
1. Self in Korean: Jagi
2. You in Korean: Neo and Dangsin
3. To Be and to Have: Itda in Korean
Notes
Chapter 4 Self as Subject
1. Subject
2. Passive Subject
3. Active Subject
4. Medio-Passive Subject
Notes
Chapter 5 Self in Pre-subjective Relation
1. Self-In-Relation: Self as We
2. Pre-subjective Self
3. Histori-Political Problem of Subjectivity
4. Humanity as Pre-subjective We
Notes
Chapter 6 Self-in-Relation and Pre-subjective We
1. Inside and Outside: Primary Boundary
2. Knot Set Theory for Self-membership
3. Knot Logic: Linking as Mutuality
4. Crossing as Relation and the Bodily Imagination of Space
Notes
Chapter 7 We in Diagrams
1. Our Husband in Diagrams
2. Our Husband in Knots
3. Triad of Self-Other-Thing
4. Primary Relation in Pre-subjective Self
Notes
Chapter 8 Primacy of We?
1. Identity as Community
2. Brain in a Vat
3. Pre-reflective Plural Self-Awareness
4. Undifferentiated Anonymity
5. Crowd
6. Das Man in Being and Time
7. We as Plural Subject
8. ἌΛΛΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΌΣ
9. Pre-Subjective as A-Subjective?
Notes
Chapter 9 Notion of Relation
1. I-You and I-It by Buber
2. Mutual Knowledge: Relational Analysis
3. Geosigi: The Thing that You Know and I Know and I Know that You Know
Notes
Chapter 10 Feelings and Corporeality
1. Contagion
2. Feelings: Bodily Self
3. Emotional Contagion, Shared Feelings, Intercorporeality
4. Involvement, Relationship, and to Feel with: Empathy by Heller
Notes
Chapter 11 Collective Memory
1. Collective Identity and Cultural Memory of the Koryo Saram
2. Border, Place, and World
3. Cosmopolitanism
4. Place of the Other
5. Multiple We’s and the Outsider: Ourideul and Geu
6. The Feeling of Saying Ouri: Being at Home
Notes
Chapter 12 Epilogue: Violence of the We
Note
Bibliography
Index
About the Author