Phenomenology is often regarded as a philosophical movement whose primary concerns lie in consciousness, perception, embodiment, and sense constitution. Explicit reflections on culture, however, appear at first glance as a comparatively late development within phenomenological thought: as a dimension of the Lebenswelt, insofar as it is always already a social and historically mediated world, or as an aspect of intersubjectivity, where sense is constituted in and through relations with others. With the postwar philosophical turn toward alterity and difference the cultural dimension increasingly emerged as a deeper horizon of strangeness. The Other is no longer encountered merely as a face or a gaze, but as someone coming from another language, another history, and another world of meaning and sense-making with different relations between words and things. More information you can find here.
