Meanings
- not comparableIn which there is recognition of otherness or alterity.
In other words, analectic is the context in which the other as other reveals himself / herself .
1986, Listening - Volume 21, page 531 more example
Such an objection misunderstands both the analectic method and the idea of alterity in Dussel . In the analectic moment , the one responding to the appeal or epiphany of the Other considers the Other not as an instrument or function within the lifeworld, but as a being for him or herself, transcendent to any order of things.
2018, Frederick B. Mills, Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation: An Introduction, page 146
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Portuguese analéctico
- analécticorelating to analects
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