Other than whom?

Diego Marconi

pp. 13-19

in: The other(s), Rivista di estetica 56, 2014.

Abstract

The "impure" indexicality of the pronoun we is exploited to widen or reduce its scope, depending on rhetorical expediency. This has powerful and mostly damaging effects on public discourse. In fact, collective identities are seldom precisely defined, and when they are they often turn out to be less discriminating than the “we” rhetoric assumes them to be.