Social-Ontological Problematics of the Waishengren in Contemporary Taiwan

• Main Authors: Tao, Feng-Yu, 陶奉禹
• Other Authors: 宋文里
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96992519208486430214

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 心理學系 === 101 === o be the third generation of Waishengren, the researcher tries to think about what Waishengren could be and what am I to stand on the edge of the seemingly unproblematic ethnic identity of Waishengren. Along the thoughts of Heidegger about the Law of Identity in his appropriation of Aristotle, the relationship between thinking and being could be the actual problematic vortex of the alleged Waishengren identity. In contemporary Taiwan, the word “Waishengren” carries so obscure of its meaning that causes its state of not being thought and spoken in ordinary language. In a form of autoethnographic writing, the thesis uses its techniques of repetition, contradiction, collage and many others as a way of practicing autoethnography, in which the subtle differences that usually escaped our attention are shown and led to some new possibilities about thinking and speaking Waishengren aloud. In chapters 3 & 4, the mixing existence and nonexistence of Waishengren in the common search of grand narratives are interrogated in many details of everyday life. But as a Waishengren, such a name shows not only an illusion of ethnic identity but also a paradox of him/herself between the personal and the historical situation. In the end, the Waishengren interpellated by the writing, just like Heidegger said as a way of Sagen, is to try to dwell with unquestionable identity on this island. But there are still some untouched questions: who is not outside of the identity, that is, “the other”? And another question, extracted from the creative novel All Men Brothers as supplement to the previous ending, arises: Where on earth could the process of dwelling so smoothly happen?