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The quality of being just righteousness, equitableness or moral.What do Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, Edward Said, Timothy Mitchell, and the 1979 American musical film, вЂњHair,вЂќ share in common? They all provide us with lessons вЂ“ in the case of the scholars, a few conditioned by circumstances in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) вЂ“ that may be useful in considering the issues of identity politics that confront us today in the public sphere with movements such as Black Lives Matter taking center stage in our political discourses, if not in our developing thoughts and ideas. The subject of self-control was examined by Schelling as part of a broader area that he called egonomics or the economics of the self (Schelling 1984 see also Schelling 1978, 1992).Schelling inferred that a myopic self-control problem exists as a result of peoples attempts to restrict, in advance, their future behavior and set of options.Insurance companies know our integrity gives us strength. The Classic Self-Control Problem.

Instead, the opposite is often true. I suggest that Buber, Levinas, Said, Mitchell, and others may offer a way out of ephemeral and fleeting experiences of solidarity across usually hardened divisions to more sustained engagement with appropriate boundaries regarding appreciating the other as Thou/Subject with subjectivity and self-contained, legitimate, and important difference to be respected for its autonomy (as culture and as heritage), and protecting ourselves as I/Subjects with subjectivity as well вЂ“ even in the relational moment.Oftentimes, a self-righteous person has the mistaken belief that holding someone up for shame or ridicule will bring on better behavior. Drawing upon the film adaptation of the musical, вЂњHair,вЂќ I suggest an approach to it as a cultural text вЂ“ that is, film as an ethnographic material-cultural source вЂ“ read through the insights of these Jewish, Middle Eastern, European, and American thinkers in order to highlight some issues of identity politics, and to relate them to the contemporary hour.

They are always on the defensive.If you are a writer, for example, they will feel envy and want to be a writer. Here are 15 signs of self-absorbed people: 1. However realizing certain elements that define their character can make us more prepared for dealing with them. It drove those self-righteous Pharisees and Scribes nuts and they finally.I-Thou, I-it, alterity, subjectivity, and evolving from the post-colonial momentSelf-absorbed people do portray certain patterns that are similar to narcissistic people, and getting close to such people can hurt your self-esteem.

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Indeed, the I holding on to the I-It relationship treats himself or herself as an It as well. In choosing to remain with the I-It relationship rather than the I-Thou, we live as something close to a semi-conscious machine, unaware of the potential subjectivity of both self and other. Buber explains:Individuality makes its appearance by being differentiated from other individualities.A person makes his appearance by entering into relation with other persons.The one is the spiritual form of natural detachment, the other is the spiritual form of natural solidarity and connexion. That is, it is in the relational moment, in recognizing the full subjectivity of the other as a Thou, that we gain full subjectivity ourselves as persons. If we choose the latter, the I-Thou relationship, we become more than subjects and gain full subjectivity ourselves (e.g., we become full persons).

So, he uses the language slightly differently than does Buber and he engages Buber directly in suggesting that the moment of encounter between I, as Subject, and the other, as radical Alterity, holds within it an ethical problem: encountering the other as Subject brings with it peril. That is, the other lives in proximity to I, the Subject, requiring attention and thought, and, yet, it is always radically apart and different from the I-Subject. That is, it is not only a developmental stage it is a failing at the level of spirit.For Emmanuel Levinas, the other is both proximal and what he calls a radical Alterity.

And, approaching the other as an I/Subject, as Buber demands of us, assumes that the other will behave ethically and return the favor, treating I, myself, in a similarly humane way that accounts for and respects my (humanity and) subjectivity. Thus, the move to relation with the other as subjectivity (in BuberвЂ™s terms, as a Thou) implies a de-centering of self that takes one away from the first principle, the effort to be, for Levinas (which includes self-preservation). The transcendental I in its nakedness comes from the awakening by and for the other. That is, for both, the male-female relationship sometimes stands in for, or is a prime example of, the relationship between I-Subject and other as Alterity:Behind the arrival of the human there is already the vigilance for the other. Levinas begins with the love relationship, which is sometimes implied in Buber as well. And humans are вЂњnostalgicвЂќ for the other in as much as we are transcendental Is.

He brought into stark relief some of the dangers of persisting in treating the other as a radical alterity within scholarship and in popular imagination (e.g., representations). The problematique raised by Levinas taken under advisement, we turn to Edward Said, perhaps most famous outside the academic world for his political policy stances on Palestinian identity and freedoms. Levinas suggests that the relationship with the other implies responsibility, (almost commercial) exchange (of good behavior), and obligation add to that a third party, then these issues become still more complicated and begin to include questions of justice вЂ“ who is more prior as other? In the cases of both scholars, there is reason to believe that not only gender, as mentioned above, but also the Arab-Israeli conflict was a backdrop to at least some of the thinking of each on otherness. Moreover, Levinas argues that the I-Thou relationship in Buber assumes that we are all equals, another assumption with which Levinas argues we cannot begin. Therefore, extending the self (I/Subject) to the other (radical Alterity) holds inherent dangers until the otherвЂ™s willingness to reciprocity is observed.

Scholars such as Timothy Mitchell take this work still further, in self-critique (e.g., critique of oneвЂ™s own cultural center), to analyze 19 th century representation, exhibition, spectacle, and the Western вЂњgazeвЂќ upon the Middle East. And, he argues, more controversially, that some historical Europeans created a shadow self in the Orient through (mis-)representation to foster a grand European identity via representations of a denuded, conquered, and exotic Orient (e.g., MENA). Those misconstructions, Said avers, were reproduced in representations that drew, at times, upon their antecedents to support one misconstrual after the other. He highlights, among other issues, problems with vantage derived from the lack of experience in the field (e.g., in locale) necessary to gain direct material and cultural knowledge, as well as that regarding, precisely, the subjectivity of the other and ways in which lack of appropriate peer review process can lead to significant misconstructions of a whole region in accounts from the scholarly to arts, music, and theatre.