Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung- Editors:
- Publisher:
- 2009
Summary
Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung explores new forms of philosophizing in the age of globalization by challenging the conventional border between the East and the West, as well as the traditional boundaries among different academic disciplines. The essays in this volume examine diverse issues, encompassing globalization, cosmopolitanism, public philosophy, political ecology, ecocriticism, ethics of encounter, and aesthetics of caring. They examine the philosophical traditions of phenomenology of Hursserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger; the dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin; the philosophy of mestizaje literature; and Asian philosophical traditions. This rich comparative and cross-cultural investigation of philosophy and political theory demonstrates the importance of cultural and cross-cultural understanding in our reading of philosophical texts, exploring how cross-cultural thinking transforms our understanding of the traditional philosophical paradigm and political theory. This volume honors the scholarship and philosophy of Hwa Yol Jung, who has been a pioneer in the field of comparative political theory, cross-cultural philosophy, and interdisciplinary scholarship. In one of his earliest publications, The Crisis of Political Understanding (1979), Jung described the urgency and necessity of breakthrough in political thinking as a crisis, and he followed up on this issue for his half century of scholarship by introducing Asian philosophy and political thought to Western scholarship, demonstrating the possibility of cross-cultural philosophical thinking. In his most recent publications, Jung refers to this possibility as 'transversality' or 'trans(uni)versality,' a concept which should replace the outmoded Eurocentric universality of modernist philosophy. Jung expounds that in 'transversality,' 'differences are negotiated and compromised rather than effaced and absorbed into sameness.' This volume is a testimony to the very possibility of transversality in our scholarship and thinking.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2009
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-2266-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-3761-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 385
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Content No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction: Rethinking Philosophy in a Time of Globalization No access Pages 1 - 16
- 1 Transverality and Public Philosophy in the Age of Globalization No access
- 2 Finitude and Its Horizons: For Hwa Yol Jung No access
- 3 Comparative Philosophy and the Politics of Otherness No access
- 4 From Crisis to Renovation: Hwa Yol Jung’s Contribution to Political Theory No access
- 5 Phenomonology as an Idea of Bridging Cultural Divide No access
- 6 Hwa Yol Jung’s Phenomenology of Asian Philosophy No access
- 7 Heaven and Man: From a Cross-Cultural Perspective No access
- 8 Neo-Confucian Political Philosophy: The Cheng Brothers versus Contemporary Political Liberals No access
- 9 Reconsidering Wang Yangming’s Theory of “the Unity of Knowledge and Action” No access
- 10 Schützian Phenomenology and the Everyday Lifeworld: A Bakhtinian Critique No access
- 11 Engaging Hwa Yol Jung’s Political Theory of Transversality: From the Standpoint of Mestizaje No access
- 12 Political Theory, Critical Ecology, and Merleau-Ponty’s Path to and from the “Site of Ontological Constitution” No access
- 13 The Confluence of Hwa Yol Jung’s Ethics and North American Environmental Literature No access
- 14 The Clash of Cultural Identities: Bernard-Marie Koltès’ Black Battles with Dogs No access
- 15 King Lear and the Ethics of Encounter (or “Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?”) No access
- 16 Dorothy Wordsworth and a Poetics of Caring No access
- 17 Vico’s Arborescence No access
- Selected Bibliography of Hwa Yol Jung’s Works in English No access Pages 355 - 362
- The Editor and Contributors (in alphabetical order) No access Pages 363 - 368
- Index No access Pages 369 - 384
- Credits No access Pages 385 - 385
