Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesOtherness exalted as if a religious concept.
Sacred altarity is the indescribable other that makes the describable possible...
2005, Henry L. Ruf, Postmodern rationality, social criticism, and religion2 more examples
In his deconstruction of the modern subject via the thought of altarity, Taylor relies on the critique of Hegel developed in twentieth-century France...
2001, Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist, Encyclopedia of postmodernismaltarity is the sense rising from the altar of separation insulating a culture, religion, people, from those defined as outside due to their otherness.
2010, Jason Schwager, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Origin
Coined by Mark C. Taylor in Altarity (1987), from altar and alterity.
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