The Task of Having to Be: Tradition, Place and Human Finitude in Dialogue with Japan

This book is an anthropological exploration into the enduring conundrum of the human condition in dialogue with Japanese culture and society. Through a hermeneutic phenomenological lens, it examines tradition, place, and human finitude, emphasizing the fundamental aspects that precede and ground subjectivity and reflexivity.

Ricardo Santos Alexandre is an anthropologist and researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal.