Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter

الغلاف الأمامي
Beyond Orientalism explores the confluence of contemporary Western (especially Continental) philosophy, with its focus on otherness and difference, and the ongoing process of globalization or the emergence of the "global village." The basic question raised in the book is: What will be the prevailing life-form or discourse of the global village? Will it be the discourse of Western science, industry, and metaphysics which, under the banner of modernization and development, seeks to homogenize the world in its image? In Said's work, this strategy was labeled "Orientalism." Or will it be possible to move "beyond Orientalism" in the direction neither of global uniformity nor radical fragmentation?

After discussing the broad range of possible "modes of cross-cultural encounter" in a historical perspective, the book develops as a preferred option the notion of a deconstructive dialogue or a "hermeneutics of difference" which respects otherness beyond assimilation. This hermeneutics is illustrated in chapters examining several bridge-builders between cultures, primarily the Indian philosophers Radhakrishnan and J. L. Mehta and the Indologist Halbfass. The remaining chapters are devoted to more concrete social-political problems, including issues of modernization, multiculturalism, and the prospects of a globalized democracy which bids farewell to Orientalism and Eurocentrism.

 

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المحتوى

MODES OF CROSSCULTURAL ENCOUNTER Reflections on 1492
1
GADAMER DERRIDA AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF DIFFERENCE
39
RADHAKRISHNAN ON BEING AND EXISTENCE
63
HEIDEGGER BHAKTI AND VEDANTA A Tribute to J L Mehta
89
EXIT FROM ORIENTALISM Comments on Halbfass
115
WESTERN THOUGHT AND INDIAN THOUGHT Some Comparative Steps
135
MODERNIZATION AND POSTMODERNIZATION Whither India?
149
SUNYATA EAST AND WEST Emptiness and Global Democracy
175
DEMOCRACY AND MULTICULTURALISM
201
Notes
223
Index
269
حقوق النشر

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

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نبذة عن المؤلف (1996)

Fred Dallmayr is Packey Dee Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books including Margins of Political Discourse, also published by SUNY Press.

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