Encountering another as free alter ego shatters the taken-for-granted world

Evidence

When we discover that there are several cultures instead of just one and consequently at the time when we acknowledge the end of a sort of cultural monopoly, be it illusory or real, we are threatened with the destruction of our own discovery. Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an ‘other’ among others. All meaning and every goal having disappeared, it becomes possible to wander through civilisations as if through vestiges and ruins. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior; Other minds as alter egos intensify complexity, requiring language to reduce it; Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14 (+2 more)

Related

• Other minds as alter egos intensify complexity, requiring language to reduce it (similarity 0.91)
• Everyday interaction rests on unproblematic, taken-for-granted world-certainty (similarity 0.90)
• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning (similarity 0.90)
• Cross-cultural encounters reveal that one’s own life-world is not beyond question (similarity 0.80)
• Estrangement from one’s own culture enables genuine judgment of it and others (similarity 0.80)
• Jung’s primitive-archetype theory is vitiated by colonial contact. (similarity 0.79)
• Familiarity reduces experienced world complexity until another self disrupts it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning #exemplifies (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14
• Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior #exemplifies (0.75)
• Everyday interaction rests on unproblematic, taken-for-granted world-certainty #qualifies (0.70)
• Other minds as alter egos intensify complexity, requiring language to reduce it #expands (0.65)