Anthropology contra Heidegger Part II: The Limit of Relationship

In Part I of this article ( Critique of Anthropology 12[1]), I looked at Martin Heidegger's phenomenology from an anthropological perspective, comparing it with Bourdieu's more pragmatic phenomenology. I suggested that Heidegger's existential analytic was subject to anthropological critique for its failure to phenomenalize the social and political dimensions of human intersubjectivity. In this part, I turn the tables and inspect anthropology using Heidegger's critique of science and scientific language, and argue that as a hermeneutician, Heidegger provides us with the means by which we can inspect one of anthropology's founding assumptions: social relationality.