The essays collected in this volume represent a major modern venture in cross-cultural interchanges between Western and non-Western philosophers. Selected from papers presented at the 6th East-West Philosophers' Conference, these essays articulate a variety of philosophical perspectives on the themes of modernity and cultural pluralism.
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The essays collected in this volume represent a major modern venture in cross-cultural interchanges between Western and non-Western philosophers. Selected from papers presented at the 6th East-West Philosophers' Conference, these essays articulate a variety of philosophical perspectives on the themes of modernity and cultural pluralism.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x16cm, xvii, 641 pp. Contains 36 papers from the 1989 Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference. Includes: R. Rorty "Philosophers, Novelists, & Intercultural Comparisons: Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens"; L. Outlaw "Lifeworlds, Modernity, & Philosophical Praxis: Race, Ethnicity, & Critical Social Theory"; D.L. Hall "Modern China & the Postmodern West"; S. Stojanovic "From Marxism to Post-Marxism"; R.J. Bernstein "Incommensurability & Otherness Revisited"; A. MacIntyre "Incommensurability, Truth & the Conversation Between Confucians & Aristotelians about the Virtues"; K.H. Potter "The Commensurability of Indian Epistemological Theories"; B.K. Matilal " Pluralism, Relativism, & Interaction between Cultures"; J. Tianji "The Problem of Relativism"; F. Feher "Between Relativism & Fundamentalism: Hermeneutics as Europe's Mainstream Political & Moral Tradition"; A.C. Graham "Conceptual Schemes & Linguistic Relativism in Relation to Chinese"; T.P. Kasulis "The Origins of the Question: Four Traditional Japanese Philosophies of Languages"; R.T. Ames "Meaning as Imaging: Prolegomena to a Confucian Epistemology"; L. Zhiulin "On the Dual Nature of Traditional Chinese Thought & Its Modernization"; K. -O. Appel "A Planetary Macroethics for Humankind: The Need, the Apparent Difficulty, & the Eventual Possibility"; M. Sakabe "Surrealistic Distortion of Landscape & the Reason of the Milieu"; L. E Goodman "Three Enduring Achievements of Islamic Philosophy"; G.C. Pande "Two Dimensions of Religion: Reflections Based on Indian Spiritual Experience & Philosophical Traditions"; etc.