HELEN FIELDING Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Western Ontario, CanadaANNEMIE HALSEMA Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsGABRIELLE HILTMANN Lecturer in Philosophy, Basel University, SwitzerlandRACHEL JONES Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee, UKDOROTHEA OLKOWSKI Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USAANNE RECIHOLD Professor of Philosophy, University of Flensburg, GermanyCHRISTINA SCHUES Assistant Professor, University of Vechta, GermanyJENNY SLATMAN Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Tilberg University, the NetherlandsCATHRYN VASSELEU University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaVERONICA VASTERLING Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the NetherlandsGAIL WEISS Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University, USA

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Accounting for the Other - Towards an Ethics of Thinking; Gabrielle Hiltmann PART I: The Other and its Impacts on an Ethical Relation to Oneself The Gift of Recognition: Self and Other in the Multicultural Situi; Annemarie Halsema Relational Identity: An Interpersonal Approach to the Body-Soul-Consciousness Problem; Gabrielle Hiltmann Beyond Narcissism: Women and Civilization; Dorothea Olkowski PART II: The Other in Relational Ethics The Relational Ontologies of Caverero and Battersby: Natality, Time and the Self; Rachel Jones Mothers/Intellectuals: Alterities of a 'Dual' Identity; Gail Weiss PART III: The Ethical Otherness of the Body Embodiment and the Ethical Concept of a Person; Anne Reichold Recognition Beyond Narcissism: Imaging the Body's Ownness and Strangeness; Jenny Slatman Becoming Animated; Cathryn Vasseleu PART IV: Otherness and Ethical Perspective The Contemplative Conditions of a Moral Action; Christina Schües Plural Perspectives and Independence: Political and Moral Judgement in Hannah Arendt; Veronica Vasterling Index