Understanding as Obstacle: Exercise as a Perspective for Intercultural Research

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 9-24.

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Understanding as Obstacle: Exercise as a Perspective for Intercultural Research

Ruben Pfizenmaier

the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany

Online:2020-03-25 Published:2020-04-26
About author:Ruben Pfizenmaier is a Ph. D., candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany. His research interests are intercultural philosophy, phenomenology, poststructuralism, practice theory, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric.

Abstract

Abstract: This paper argues that modes of understanding built on familiarity with the other, as well as on contrastive opposition can become an obstacle in intercultural research. Built on a critique of Gadamer's idea of a fusion of horizons, it claims that intercultural research not only has to circumvent the danger of reducing the other under the familiar, but also has to prevent a construction of the other as exotic and absolutely different.

Key words: intercultural philosophy, exercise, hermeneutics, language, translation

Ruben Pfizenmaier. Understanding as Obstacle: Exercise as a Perspective for Intercultural Research[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2020, 40(2): 9-24.

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