Transcendental phenomenology, hermeneutic and cultural anthropology

The purpose of this article is to discuss some of the relevant qilestions of interrelation between philosophy, hermeneutic and cultural anthropology. By inquiring into phenomena of relation with the OTHER we must pay attention to historical context. The present homogenization and Europeization of the world when radical otherness is impossible depends on circumstance that there exist at least two stages of human history. First there goes the epoquc of closed "non-historical" cultures and them comes the time of homogenous, although not without cultural differences, universal community of world where European science, technology, law, economics and politics are predominant. The relativistic approach is as much useful as it helps us to overcome our ethnocentricity, brings broader context to our experience, mores, and traditions and allows us to think in tenns of other cultures. Though cultural relativism ofthis kind is possible only as a first step. Philosophy isn't simple mapping offacts. It's a research of possibility of facts, legitimate of main horizon and rationality of research subject itself. By going from experience of difference to rethinking that the conditions of such experience one should necessary shift from hermeneutic experience ofthe OTHER from the standpoint of cultural anthropology to autoreflection of transcendental phenomenologyFilosofijos katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta