Beschreibung:
Issues of race, gender, nationality and religion have been the breeding ground of conflict and oppression throughout history. This book provides an engaging assessment of the dangers of defining the self against the other.
Preface Introduction: Radical otherness: A socio/theological Investigation 1. Otherness, Outsiders and Larger Tents 2. The Politics of Otherness 3. The Hermeneutics of Otherness 4. Consuming Others 5. Otherness as metatheoretical/physical problem: backgrounding the foreground Conclusion