ABSTRACT
The figure of the Other has played an important role in classic phenomenology from the beginning. What sets the phenomenology of alterity apart from this is its shift from the “primacy of the self” to the “primacy of the Other.” This chapter outlines some key aspects of the political thought of the phenomenology of alterity by identifying some commonalities among the various approaches. These include the methodological reliance on a counter-intentionality and the development of some specific figures of thought that follow from the primacy of the Other. Amongst them, I count the in-between, the Other in the self, conflictuality, ontological violence, and aporetic politics. The chapter concludes with an outlook on the relationship between the politics of difference and politics of alterity.
