Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung
Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung
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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
Table of Contents
Part 2 Part One. Thinking Others: In the Age of Globalization
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Transversality and Public Philosophy in the Age of Globalization
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Finitude and Its Horizons: For Hwa Yol Jung
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Comparative Philosophy and Politics of Otherness
Chapter 6 Chapter 4. From Crisis to Renovation: Hwa Yol Jung's Contribution to Political Theory
Chapter 7 Chapter 5. Phenomenology as an Idea of Bridging Cultural Divide
Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Hwa Yol Jung's Phenomenology of Asian Philosophy
Part 9 Part Two. New Horizons in Political Theory: East and West
Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Heaven and Man: from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Neo-Confucian Political Philosophy: The Cheng Brothers versus Contemporary Political Liberals
Chapter 12 Chapter 9. Reconsidering Wang Yangming's Theory of the "Unity of Knowledge and Action"
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Schützian Phenomenology and the Everyday Lifeworld: A Bakhtinian Critique
Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Engaging Hwa Yol Jung's Political Theory of Transversality: from the Standpoint of Mestizaje
Chapter 15 Chapter 12. Political Theory, Critical Ecology, and Merleau-Ponty's Path to and from the "Site of Ontological Constitution"
Part 16 Part Three. Diasporic Imagination: From Ecology to Gender Politics
Chapter 17 Chapter 13. The Confluence of Hwa Yol Jung's Ethics and North American Environmental Literature
Chapter 18 Chapter 14. The Clash of Cultural Identities: Bernard-Marie Koltes' Black Battles with Dogs
Chapter 19 Chapter 15. King Lear and the Ethics of Encounter
Chapter 20 Chapter 16. Dorothy Wordsworth and a Poetics of Caring
Chapter 21 Chapter 17. Vico's Arborescence
22 Selected Bibliography of Hwa Yol Jung's Works in English
Product details
| Published | 16 Jun 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 396 |
| ISBN | 9780739137611 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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