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Anthropology and alterity : responding to the other / edited by Bernhard Leistle

Leistle, Bernhard [Herausgeberin/-geber]

New York ; London : Routledge, 2017

ix, 314 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Anthropology and alterity (Online-Ausgabe)

1-138-67184-3 ; 978-1-138-67184-3 ((hbk))

978-1-315-61675-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 992455150     

LB 30000  | LB 31960  | LB 57000  | LB 31900      Ähnliche Literatur

GN33

*Das Andere ; Ethnologie ; Waldenfels, Bernhard [1934-] ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

Anthropology ; Other (Philosophy)

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