The view of the other

Shin-Ichi Yuasa

pp. 161-167

in: Philip Blosser, Eiichi Shimomissé, Lester Embree, Hiroshi Kojima (eds), Japanese and Western phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 1993

Abstract

The image I have of the other is of a being that can determine my being. He reminds me of my facticity and being-with and brings me to self-consciousness in the world. He cannot be reduced to a product of my ego.