Some strangeness denies the stranger even general human commonality, making the relation a non-relation

Evidence

On the other hand, there is a kind of “strangeness” that rejects the very commonness based on something more general which embraces the parties. The relation of the Greeks to the Barbarians is perhaps typical here, as are all cases in which it is precisely general attributes, felt to be specifically and purely human, that are disallowed to the other. But “stranger/* here, has no positive meaning; the relation to him is a non-relation; he is not what is relevant here, a member of the group itself. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9648

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes two senses of strangeness: one based on exclusion from shared general attributes versus the stranger-within-the-group who shares general human commonness.
• XREF: connects to: The non-identical can only be approached through concepts without being subsumed — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1242; Melodrama conceals the absence of genuine individual interrelation — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 401; Universalising models of conviviality inevitably exclude those who cannot embody them. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 82