Abstract

URE, Mariano. From alterity to hyperalterity: human relations in the Network Society. Sophia [online]. 2017, n.22, pp.193-212. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n22.2017.08.

From an interdisciplinary perspective, this article analyzes the relationship between men in a society that, through the expansion of information technology, is building a global network of unlimited connections. This leads us to wonder if the Network Society is the historical expression of a mode of being interdependent and if its real communicational dynamics promote the construction of the inter-human dimension. The approach to the problem takes up the proposals of the philosophy of alterity, particularly those from Buber, Lévinas and Jaspers, and appeals to theoretical contributions on the social relations based on communicative exchanges, specially the definition of network developed by the sociologist Manuel Catells. The result is a reformulation of the principles of the traditional philosophy of alterity, in which are identified the possibilities and conditions for the deployment of the human vocation of those who integrate networks. The multidirectionality of communicative exchanges and their diachrony in the network discusses the concepts of exclusivity and presence of the philosophy of alterity, which constitute the conditions of recognition of the other. In the network, the recognition and construction of the interhuman are possible thanks to a deployment of relationships with others that are beyond the reach of my gaze. Thus emerge the figures of the other on whom I have ethical responsibilities: the remote, the unknown and the stranger. The concept of hyperalterity represents the relationship, constitutive of my own being and at the same time an ethical obligation of recognition, with all the others even if they are not immediate for me.

Keywords : Ethics; acknowledgment; alterity; network; multidirectionality.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )