La dialectique ipséité-altréité dans la rhétorique, la philosophie et l’esthétique d’Édouard Glissant

Abstract

Glissant used a phenomenological approach to promote a new alliance between philosophy and eloquence. This alliance puts philosophy at the service of rhetoric and poetics of novelistic fiction. In this context, we have to reflect on the ipseity-otherness dialectic as conceived in Glissant’s rhetoric, thought and aesthetics. In fact, it is a question of dialectic which attacks the universal standardization and its reductive transparency. So, this dialectic proclaims difference and opacity values in order to move away from any ideological or political bipolarization. This how the writer develops a whole-earth, placed under the label of cultural equinox, poetics of relationship, and intermixing between different human imaginations.