In his book, L'etranger ou l'union dans la difference, the French Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau (1921-1986) wrote, When we confess our incapacity to know others, we confess simultaneously their existence, our own (to which we are returned) and a fundamental reciprocity between them and us. To the extent we agree not to identify ourselves with anything they can expect from us and not to identify them with satisfactions or assurances we hope to take from them, we discover the sense of the poverty which funds all communication. This poverty signifies in effect both the desire which unites...
In his book, L'etranger ou l'union dans la difference, the French Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau (1921-1986) wrote, When we confess our incapacity...
