Fremdes Selbst

Zur phänomenologischen Propädeutik interkulturellen Philosophierens

Abstract

The contribution attempts to identify the basic features of a phenomenological propaedeutics in which not the alien, but first of all a horror vacui is presented as a challenge to intercultural philosophising. Following the intuition of decisive self-alienation, as found in the philosophizing of Eugen Fink and Max Scheler, a threshold of human experience becomes the subject of the article, on which one finds oneself between one's own and the foreign. Wherever phenomenology is taken seriously as a special way of conscious experience, it makes it possible to question the reason for our comfort in the face of such theories, in which own and foreign culture can be placed in a confrontational or communicative relationship to each other.