Citation

Allen S. Educ. Philos. Theor. 2008; 40(7): 888-899.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00468.x

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Abstract

Most scholarly fields, at least in the humanities, have been asking the same questions about the politics of encounter for hundreds of years: Should we try to find a way to encounter an other without appropriating it, without imposing ourselves on it? Is encountering-without-appropriating even possible? These questions are profuse and taken up with intense interest in scholarship about the personal essay, specifically, which has often been credited as a philosophical form.