Otherism

Otherism

Otherism is a word used in several ways:

*It is a direct translation of altruism, and is sometimes used synonymously.

*Ralph Waldo Emerson used it to describe the process by which an individual is depersonalized or alienated due to their place in society. [William E. Bridges in Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd, "On Emerson", Duke University Press, 1988, p141. ISBN 0822308614] This alientation can be embodied as prejudice against the other (analogous to sexism and racism). [Dennis McCort, "Going Beyond the Pairs: The Coincidence of Opposites in German Romanticism, Zen amd Deconstruction", SUNY Press, 2001, p101. ISBN 0791450015]

*In 2005 Ezri Tarazi co-founded an industrial design movement called "Otherism".Fact|date=January 2008

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