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this issue. This text does not take a position in support of any
viewpoint, theory, ideology, etc. Perhaps each has its own truth
from its own perspective. This text only attempts to explore some
basic fundamentals from the perspective of intellectual history,
without the need for any kind of finality and acknowledging the
possibility (and reserving the right) of being wrong.
Along these lines, this book will discuss these concepts in the
following order.
1. The starting point is the concept of the “same.” In every
respect, “sameness” is the origin of any analysis whose
topic is the “other” and the “alien.” It is decidedly interest¬
ing that practically no one acknowledges this, though we
could really read a little Hegel or else recall that we read
that we are familiar with him instead of keeping it a secret.
Of course, that is tiring, and it is much simpler and more
comfortable to make fundamentalist pronouncements.
However, just as there is no same without other, this is also
true the other way around. Omnis determinatio est nega¬
tio—but we could say this the other way around, exchanging
the terms “determination” and “negation.” That is to say
that all determination is negation, but all negation is also
determination. Of course, this is somewhat more compli¬
cated than that.
2. This is followed by the “other,” partly on the perspective of
the “same,” who/which opposes it, even while the “same” is
capable of determining itself from the perspective of the
“other.”
3. I discuss the “alien” in close connection with the previous,
though the “alien” is not necessarily identical to the concept
of the “other,” as the “alien” is always the “other,” but the “other”
is not always the “alien.”
4. Although, if sticking to the Hegelian foundations, the exam¬
ination could end here, this text will continue. I will—nomi¬
nally—contradict Hegel’s concept of the “Holy Trinity.” That