L'alterità, il dialogo e il conflitto inconciliabile: dall'eroe tragico all'hyper self di Elster

Francesca Castaldo proposes an article on otherness which potentially leads to hostilities, with a focus on that type of conflict that does not find solutions: the irreconcilable conflict. Starting from the fact that the unavoidable diversity can lead to conflict between people, states, opposing alliances, this paper moves from the hypothesis that some of the conceptual apparatus used in the study of interpersonal conflicts can be applied to the analysis of intrapersonal conflicts. Furthermore the diversity, far from being conceived only between subjects, can also be observed within the same individual. And the conflict is not always negative but can be solved - through dialogue, education and different culture confrontation - and even profitable under certain conditions. However there are some circumstances in which the conflict remains unresolved. Among these the article deals with the internal conflict by examining two types of symbolic action, the tragic hero and the more modern Elster hyper self.