Xenology

The xenology ( gr. Ξένος Xenos "stranger" and -logie ), even alienation research , concerned with appearances and assessments of cultural alienation, interdependence of foreign and Bathroom Private (d. E., That the foreigners only own alien point of view), intercultural communication problems, forms and functions of stereotypes , prejudice and xenophobia .

The conceptualization of the foreign

The decisive scientific determination of the concept of the foreign, including its definition by the myth, followed the epistemological examination of the standardized understanding of science in intellectual history, which, through the work on xenology, rededicated the adjective "foreign" with its attributive use to a for self-existing word, to the noun, made possible.

Concept history

The term xenology was first introduced by Léopold-Joseph Bonny Duala-M'bedy from Cameroon . In his work on Xenology, first published in 1977 - The Science of the Foreign and the Repression of Humanity in Anthropology , he dealt critically with thinking about the foreign. He subsumes the results of his analyzes with the help of a mythical definition of the stranger (ξέvίos), which refers to the "Zeus Xenios" (god protector of the stranger) from the Odyssey , under the term xenology .

Duala-M'bedy was concerned with creating a theory of the foreign and using this universal category to achieve a balance between the worlds of experience.

“In myth, the elements of xenology are inherent. Its symbolic meaning abolishes the paradox of the xenological structure of being, which on the one hand is consubstantial in being and at the same time only manifests itself within human consciousness ”.

As a science, xenology emerged from the theory of the secondary consciousness, as the consciousness of the neighbor. In his perverted form he was perceived as a stranger in the general framework of the negative apperception of non-European peoples in the philosophy of history. In contrast to a pure concept of difference, a normative social category developed within xenology that encompasses all of humanity.

Areas of responsibility

The social competence of complex social systems
Rehabilitation of the peoples who were negatively received in the philosophy of history
Special Sociology of the Third World
Sociology of World Society
Theory of international politics in terms of the global expansion of the classical concept of politics.

literature

Munasu Duala-M'bedy Xenology. The science of the foreign and the repression of humanity in anthropology. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) / Munich 1977, ISBN 3-495-47350-5 .
J. Ph. Furtwängler, writings on psycho-xenology.
Hartmut Behr: Theory of the foreign as criticism of culture and civilization. A critical research report. In: Philosophical Yearbook. Vol. 102, 1995, ISSN 0031-8183 , pp. 191-200.
Christian Bremshey, Hilde Hoffmann, Yomb May, Marco Ortu (eds.): There are no strangers. Xenology and Knowledge (= cultural studies 2). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7458-3 .
Bernhard Waldenfels , Topography of the Foreign. Studies on the phenomenology of the foreign 1 . Frankfurt a. M. Suhrkamp 1997
Michael Ashkenazi: What We Know About Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Springer, Cham 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-44455-0 .
Giovanni Tidona: Strangeness. Xenological approaches and their relevance for the educational question , Mattes, Heidelberg, 2018.

Individual evidence

^ Fabian Lamp: Social work between redistribution and recognition. Dealing with difference in socio-educational theory and practice. transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-662-5 , p. 168 (also: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 2006), online on Google books .

[1] Fabian Lamp: Social work between redistribution and recognition. Dealing with difference in socio-educational theory and practice. transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-662-5 , p. 168 (also: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 2006), online on Google books .