O outro-para-mim e o eu-para-o-outro

Abstract

To be means to be for another, and through the other, for oneself. A person has no internal sovereign territory, he is wholly and always on the boundary; looking inside himself, he looks into the eyes of another or with the eyes of another. Mikhail Bakhtin 2 Who is the other-for-me? Who is the I-for-the-other? How do discourses in life, arts, sciences and media, both print and digital, help us to understand and to try and answer these questions, especially in contemporaneity? Based on those questions, Bakhtiniana's 14.1 issue, the first in 2019, gathers discursive studies from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, embracing important investigations. Some studies have taken their object from the digital world, either focusing on the recognition and investigation of identity politicswhich involve matters of recognition, affirmation and values of the "I-for-myself, the other-for-me, and I-for-the-other" (BAKHTIN, 1993, p.54) 3 and discuss themes of feminism, male chauvinism, racism, violence and