Abstract

In his essay, “Relation of the Third Kind”, Maurice Blachot establishes three relations that could be established with the Other. These relationships when compared to its political annotations denote very different connotations. In the socialist state, which is didactic, the educational system is based upon a hierarchy and in the fascist state, hierarchy is threatened as if it does not exist but unification is the sole aim. In order to break from this duality, Blanchot offers a third Other whose coming is going to create an horizon in which there is no horizon. This Other Himwhen seen through an educational lens, I purport, can claim the intellectual emancipation of JosephJacotot. Jacotot’s teaching method depends on three principles: all men have equal intelligence, every man has the faculty of being able to instruct himself/herself and everything is in everything. There is no intelligence where there is the binding of intelligence to another. The intelligence occurs where each person acts and is capable of telling and verifying what he is doing. In the conclusion, I try to purport that instead of the intellectual and enlightened pedagogy of Socialism ending in Fascism, wherein the Leader turns out to be one who informs the crowd through teaching, whether on a macro or micro level, a new politics could only start in a relation that should be established as the third relation, without a Leader, without a central pedagogical technique where the teaching subject neither unifies nor affirms the Other and wherein the Other can turn into an Atrui and not a subject, but an Other Him, always in distant but still visible.