ABSTRACT
In navigation, a vessel has a route, a heading, and a destination. “Heading” refers to an “oriented, calculated, deliberate, voluntary, ordered movement”. The Other points to a “relation that no longer obeys the form, the sign, or the logic of the heading, nor even of the anti-heading—of beheading, of decapitation”. The destructive egocentism, or what Levinas calls Egotism, must be left behind in the relationship with the heading of the other. Jacques Derrida’s expression “The Other Heading”, which he uses to discuss Europe’s future routes, suggests that “another direction is in the offing, or that it is necessary to change direction”. It entails changing goals, deciding on another heading, or changing captains, “or even—why not?—the age or sex of the captain”.
