Anthropology and Alterity : Responding to the Other Paperback / softback
Edited by Bernhard Leistle
Part of the Routledge Studies in Anthropology series
Paperback / softback
Description
Alterity or otherness is a central notion in cultural anthropology and philosophy, as well as in other disciplines.
While anthropology, with its aim of understanding cultural difference, tends to take otherness as a fact, there have been vigorous attempts in contemporary philosophy, particularly in phenomenology, to answer the fundamental question: What is the Other?
This book brings the two approaches to otherness – the hermeneutical pragmatics of anthropology, and the radical reflection of philosophy – together, with the goal of enriching one through the other.
The philosophy of the German phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels, up to now little known to anthropologists, has a central position in this undertaking.
Waldenfels’s concept of a responsivity to the Other offers to cultural anthropology the possibility of a philosophical engagement with the Other that does not contradict the project of making sense of concrete empirical others.
The book illustrates the fertility of this new approach to alterity through a broad spectrum of themes, ranging from reflections on theory formation, via discussions of race and human-animal relations, to personal meditations on experiences of alterity.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/12/2019
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- ISBN:9780367875459
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/12/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367875459
