Otherness discourse depends on a stable Enlightenment Self as its reference point

Evidence

As the typical Enlightenment subject (who was white, male, middle-aged, rational) is no longer being taken for granted as the center and yardstick of the human universe, also its “other” loses relevance and meaning. In sociology, cultural and gender studies, the terminology of difference increasingly takes the place of otherness. This terminology is more neutral and matter-of-fact and less historically burdened than that of otherness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 206

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines why ‘difference’ replaced ‘otherness’ as an analytic term — a useful distinction for the vault’s terminology history.
• XREF: Relates to the vault’s critical-race-theory claims about racialization requiring a position from which difference is marked. — connects to: Classical logic’s negation models the master’s account of otherness as lack — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 231
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 206