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...