Anita C. Galuschek is visiting scholar and lecturer at Heidelberg University and works at the PLACE project of the Heidelberg School of Education where she combines approaches from cultural anthropology, philosophy and pedagogy. Her publications focus various articles around selfhood, recognition, life-world and prejudices.

“The book offers a very differentiated examination of authoritative socio-philosophical literature, which can be helpful for anthropologists and sociologists, certainly also for psychologists, to reflect on our being in the world and to make it describable.” • Paideuma“This is a highly original and ambitious book. [The author’s] discussion as a whole is enormously stimulating, and it represents perhaps the most sustained attempt to develop philosophical positions in dialogue with ethnographic data since the 1960s and 1970s.” · Joel Robbins, Trinity College, Cambridge

• FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON PERSON, THE SELF, AND MUTUAL RECOGNITIONChapter 1. Introductory Reflections on Mutual RecognitionChapter 2. Approaching Personhood from RelationalityChapter 3. Aspects and Problems of EmpathyPART II: DEVELOPONG RELATIONAL SELFHOODChapter 4. About Being Oneself as AnotherChapter 5. The Self as PersonChapter 6. Empathic Understanding and Agency as Mutual RecognitionChapter 7. An Outlook to Social AppreciationEpilogueReferencesIndex