What can a phenomenology of the foreign be? In a pointed manner, the new book by the outstanding German phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels presents its central themes. The key topics are: order, pathos, response, body, attention, interculturality. The foreign appears as something extraordinary in the form of disturbances, deviations, and surpluses at the boundaries of orders. This raises the question of how we can engage with the foreign without dulling its edge. From this arises a responsive kind of phenomenology that goes beyond all intentions and regulations, starting from experiences and claims. A responding self is presented as a bodily self that is never entirely at home with itself. The foreignness begins in our own house. It starts with attention when something catches our eye. And it does not end, not least, with an inte.