The Centre for Studies in Otherness invites papers for the e-journal issue Otherness: Essays and Studies 4.1

Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for a special issue: Philosophy and the Other’. We welcome papers dealing with any aspect of otherness in relation to philosophy and cultural theory.

Otherness is complex and multivalent term in the context of philosophical thought. It is most essentially defined as ‘difference’, both via outside markers and internal characteristics. However, Otherness is also an important part of self-definition. Inevitably bound to all considerations of subjectivity, it extends outward as a fundamental marker in discussions of ontology, epistemology, phenomenology, aesthetics, and the political. In light of more recent cultural trends, philosophy further engages with the blushed boundaries of identity in transcultural contexts that render the entire concept of otherness even more intricate and problematic. This is what we hope to engage with in the current issue of Otherness: Essays and Studies.

This issue invites submissions dealing with areas including, but not limited to:

Perception and the Other

Otherness and Aesthetics

Memory, History, Trauma, and Otherness

Ethics, Responsibility, and the Other

Absolute Otherness

The ontology of the Other

Healing Otherness: Sanity & Suffering

Epistemological considerations of the Other

Articles should be between 5,000 – 8,000 words. All electronic submissions should be sent via email with Word document attachment formatted to Chicago Manual of Style standards, to our guest editor Michelle Cooney at michelle.cooney@mic.ul.ie by July 5th, 2013.

About the journal:

This peer reviewed online journal was inspired by the immense research productivity of recent collaborative projects undertaken by members of the Centre for Studies in Otherness. In the last two years, these have included conferences, seminars, special edition journal issues and a hard copy edited essay collection which is soon to be completed.

Via ‘Otherness: Essays & Studies’, we seek to publish research articles from and across different academic disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity. As such, we now offer an outlet for the dissemination of such research into otherness and aim to provide an open and active forum for academic discussion. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study. We envisage that forthcoming issues of the journal will relate to topics within the context of Otherness studies and members and colleagues of the Centre are welcome to propose research ideas and themes for more focused studies.

Please keep an eye out on this website for upcoming calls for papers. For further information on the journal, please contact Maria Beville at otherness.research@gmail.com.

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