Abstract

DE WIT, Hans. "My God", She Said, "for I Am so Insane on the Ships" Otherness and Infinitude on a Hermeneutical Perspective. Acta poét [online]. 2010, vol.31, n.2, pp.19-54. ISSN 2448-735X.

At the present moment, the encounter with the other, with otherness and alterity, has become un urgent item of the agenda of mankind. The irruption of the other in the sphere of the private life of so many -at a scale unknown so far- is not always seen as a possibility to live better, to grow, to enrich oneself. Living together, accepting the other, has rather become a problem. All kinds of fundamentalisms are coming up. Believers, whatever their religious conviction may be, frequently use texts from their sacred books as a weapon, as an element to defend their taken position. This confronts us with the question as to what extent a new way of reading, a way of intercultural reading of mankind's most important religious subtext -the Bible- could offer an alternative.

Keywords : otherness; intercultural hermeneutics; religious fundamentalism; the ethics of interpretation.

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