Anthropology and alterity : responding to the other
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Leistle Bernhard ;
- Editeurs : New York London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group ;
- Date d'édition : 2017
- ISBN : 978-1-138-67184-3
- Sujets : Anthropologie -- Philosophie, Altérité (philosophie)
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-314 p.), : Ill., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Routledge studies in anthropology, 32,
Notes
Existe aussi en version électronique ; Bibliogr. en fin de contribution. Index
Résumé
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