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

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]
©1991
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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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