افشای جزئیات The Stranger

در این مطلب، جدیدترین اخبار و اطلاعات مربوط به «The Stranger» را به همراه نکات مهم و جزئیات تکمیلی خواهید خواند.

در ادامه، تمامی اطلاعات موجود درباره این موضوع به صورت یکجا گردآوری شده است تا بتوانید بدون نیاز به مراجعه به منابع مختلف، جزئیات کامل را مطالعه کنید.

The stranger will thus not be considered here in the usual sense of the term, as the wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow—the potential wanderer, so to speak, who, although he has gone no further, has not quite got over the freedom of coming and going. He is fixed within a certain spatial circle…but his position within it is fundamentally affected by the fact that he does not belong in it initially and that he brings qualities into it that are not, and caot be, indigenous to it.1

Another expression of this constellation is to be found in the objectivity of the stranger. Because he is not bound by roots to the particular constituents and partisan dispositions of the group, he confronts all of these with a distinctly ‘objective’ attitude.2

From earliest times, in uprisings of all sorts the attacked party has claimed that there has been incitement from the outside, by foreign emissaries and agitators. Insofar as this has happened, it represents an exaggeration of the specific role of the stranger; he is the freer man, practically and theoretically; he examines conditions with less prejudice; he assesses them against standards that are more general and more objective; and his actions are not confined by custom, piety, or precedent.3

The stranger is close to us insofar as we feel between him and ourselves similarities of nationality or social position, of occupation or of general human nature. He is far from us insofar as these similarities extend beyond him and us, and coect us only because they coect a great many people.4

…the stranger is near and far at the same time, as in any relationship based on merely universal human similarities. Between these two factors of nearness and distance, however, a peculiar tension arises, since the consciousness of having only the absolutely general in common has exactly the effect of putting a special emphasis on that which is not common.5

Read Amy Clarke’s blog post, The Stranger (http://themigrationist.net/2014/01/23/the-stranger/), in which she uses explores immigration in relation to Simmel’s social type of the stranger. Does this social type help to explain our response to immigration? Do you think that all immigrants are treated in similar ways, or does it depend on skin color, religion, country of origin, and gender as well? Explain your answer in light of Simmel’s description.