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.
First Page
9
Last Page
24
Recommended Citation
Ruben, Pfizenmaier. 2020. "Understanding as Obstacle: Exercise as a Perspective for Intercultural Research." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (2): pp.9-24. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss2/20
