Culture and Modernity : : East-West Philosophic Perspectives / / ed. by Eliot Deutsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Azmeh, Aziz,; Ames, Roger T.,; Apel, Karl-Otto,; Bernstein, Richard J.,; Chatterjee, Margaret,; Cua, Antonio S.,; Danto, Arthur C.,; Feher, Ferenc,; Goodman, Lenn E.,; Graham, A. C.,; Gyekye, Kwame,; Hall, David L.,; Heller, Agnes,; Herrera, Maria L.,; Kasulis, Thomas P.,; Krishna, Daya,; Krüger, Lorenz,; Kupperman, Joel J.,; Laudan, Larry,; Magintyre, Alasdair,; Matilal, Bimal K.,; Niiniluoto, Ilkka,; Outlaw, Lucius,; Pande, G. C.,; Parkes, Graham,; Pera, Marcello,; Potter, Karl H.,; Putnam, Hilary,; Rorty, Richard,; Sakabe, Megumi,; Stojanović, Svetozar,; Streng, Frederick J.,; Verma, Roop Rekha,; Wollheim, Richard,; Zhilin, Li,
• HerausgeberIn: Deutsch, Eliot,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Crisis of Modernity -- PHILOSOPHERS, NOVELISTS, AND INTERCULTURAL COMPARISONS: HEIDEGGER, KUNDERA, AND DICKENS -- LIFEWORLDS, MODERNITY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRAXIS: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY -- MODERN CHINA AND THE POSTMODERN WEST -- FROM MARXISM TO POST-MARXISM -- Incommensurability -- INCOMMENSURABILITY AND OTHERNESS REVISITED -- INCOMMENSURABILITY, TRUTH, AND THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN CONFUCIANS AND ARISTOTELIANS ABOUT THE VIRTUES -- THE COMMENSURABILITY OF INDIAN EPISTEMOLOGICAL THEORIES -- Relativism -- PLURALISM, RELATIVISM, AND INTERACTION BETWEEN CULTURES -- BETWEEN RELATIVISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM: HERMENEUTICS AS EUROPE'S MAINSTREAM POLITICAL AND MORAL TRADITION -- Language and Non-Western Cultural Traditions -- CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES AND LINGUISTIC RELATIVISM IN RELATION TO CHINESE -- THE ORIGINS OF THE QUESTION: FOUR TRADITIONAL JAPANESE PHILOSOPHIES OF LANGUAGE -- MEANING AS IMAGING: PROLEGOMENA TO A CONFUCIAN EPISTEMOLOGY -- ON THE DUAL NATURE OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE THOUGHT AND ITS MODERNIZATION -- Culture and the Ethical -- A PLANETARY MACROETHICS FOR HUMANKIND: THE NEED, THE APPARENT DIFFICULTY, AND THE EVENTUAL POSSIBILITY -- REASONABLE CHALLENGES AND PRECONDITIONS OF ADJUDICATION -- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE HOLOCAUST: CAN ETHICS BE AHISTORICAL? -- TRADITION AND MORAL PROGRESS -- Culture and the Aesthetic -- THE SHAPE OF ARTISTIC PASTS, EAST AND WEST -- SURREALISTIC DISTORTION OF LANDSCAPE AND THE REASON OF THE MILIEU -- WHY ART CHANGES -- Culture and the Religious -- THE TRANSCENDENTAL IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT -- REFLECTIONS ON RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT -- THREE ENDURING ACHIEVEMENTS OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY -- TWO DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION: REFLECTIONS BASED ON INDIAN SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS -- Culture and the Political -- BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND NOMADISM: WONDERING ABOUT THE LANGUAGES OF PHILOSOPHY -- THE DISCOURSE OF CULTURAL AUTHENTICITY: ISLAMIST REVIVALISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT UNIVERSALISM -- TRADITIONAL POLITICAL VALUES AND IDEAS: AN EXAMINATION OF THEIR RELEVANCE TO DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICAL ORDER -- Cultural Identity -- ON THE INTERPRETATION OF TRADITIONAL CULTURES -- THE CONCEPT OF PROGRESS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY -- MOSES, HSÜAN-TSANG, AND HISTORY -- SECULARISM: SACRED AND PROFANE -- Scientific Progress -- SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS AND CONTENT LOSS -- A DIALECTICAL VIEW OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY AND PROGRESS -- SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS RECONSIDERED -- DOES PROGRESS IN SCIENCE LEAD TO TRUTH? -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index