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Culture and modernity : East-West philosophic perspectives / edited by Eliot Deutsch.

Contributor(s): Deutsch, Eliot | East-West Philosophers' Conference (6th : 1989 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xvii, 641 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0824813707 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Philosophy and civilization -- Congresses | Civilization, Modern -- Congresses | East and West -- Congresses | Philosophy, Modern -- Congresses | Philosophy, Asian -- CongressesDDC classification: 100 LOC classification: B59 | .C84 1991Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Philosophers, novelists, and intercultural comparisons : Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens / Richard Rorty -- Lifeworlds, modernity, and philosophical praxis : race, ethnicity, and critical social theory / Lucius Outlaw -- Modern China and the postmodern West / David L. Hall -- From Marxism to post-Marxism / Svetozar Stojanović -- Incommensurability and otherness revisited / Richard J. Bernstein -- Incommensurability, truth, and the conversation between Confucians and Aritotelians about the virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre -- The commensurability of Indian epistemological theories / Karl H. Potter -- Pluralism, relativism, and interaction between cultures / Bimal K. Matilal -- The problem of relativism / Jiang Tianji.
Between relativism and fundamentalism : hermeneutics as Europe's mainstream political and moral tradition / Ferenc Feher -- Conceptual schemes and linguistic relativism in relation to Chinese / A.C. Graham -- The origins of the question : four traditional Japanese philosophies of language / Thomas P. Kasulis -- Meaning as imaging : Prolegomena to a Confucian epistemelogy / Roger T. Ames -- On the dual nature of traditional Chinese thought and its modernization
Surrealistic distortion of landscape and the reason of the milieu / Megumi Sakabe -- Why art changes / Richard Wollheim -- The transcendental in a comparative context / Frederick J. Streng -- Reflections on religious pluralism in the Indian context / Margaret Chatterjee -- Three enduring achievements of Islamic philosophy / Lenn E. Goodman -- Two dimensions of religion : reflections based on Indian spiritual experience and philosophical traditions / G.C. Pande -- Between nationalism and nomadism : wondering about the languages of philosophy / Graham Parkes -- The discourse of cultural authenticity : Islamist revivalism and enlightenment universalism / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Traditional political values and ideas : an examination of their relevance to developments in contemporary African political order / Kwame Gyekye -- On the interpretation of traditional cultures / Maria L. Herrera.
The concept of progress and cultural identity / Roop Rekha Verma -- Moses, Hsüan-tsang, and history / Agnes Heller -- Secularism : sacred and profane / Daya Krishna -- Scientific progress and content loss / Larry Laudan -- A dialectical view of scientific rationality and progress / Marcello Pera -- Scientific progress reconsidered / Ilkka Niiniluoto -- Does progress in science lead to truth? / Lorenz Krüger.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange B59 .C84 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182800829356

Essays selected from papers presented at the Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference, August 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philosophers, novelists, and intercultural comparisons : Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens / Richard Rorty -- Lifeworlds, modernity, and philosophical praxis : race, ethnicity, and critical social theory / Lucius Outlaw -- Modern China and the postmodern West / David L. Hall -- From Marxism to post-Marxism / Svetozar Stojanović -- Incommensurability and otherness revisited / Richard J. Bernstein -- Incommensurability, truth, and the conversation between Confucians and Aritotelians about the virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre -- The commensurability of Indian epistemological theories / Karl H. Potter -- Pluralism, relativism, and interaction between cultures / Bimal K. Matilal -- The problem of relativism / Jiang Tianji.

Between relativism and fundamentalism : hermeneutics as Europe's mainstream political and moral tradition / Ferenc Feher -- Conceptual schemes and linguistic relativism in relation to Chinese / A.C. Graham -- The origins of the question : four traditional Japanese philosophies of language / Thomas P. Kasulis -- Meaning as imaging : Prolegomena to a Confucian epistemelogy / Roger T. Ames -- On the dual nature of traditional Chinese thought and its modernization

Surrealistic distortion of landscape and the reason of the milieu / Megumi Sakabe -- Why art changes / Richard Wollheim -- The transcendental in a comparative context / Frederick J. Streng -- Reflections on religious pluralism in the Indian context / Margaret Chatterjee -- Three enduring achievements of Islamic philosophy / Lenn E. Goodman -- Two dimensions of religion : reflections based on Indian spiritual experience and philosophical traditions / G.C. Pande -- Between nationalism and nomadism : wondering about the languages of philosophy / Graham Parkes -- The discourse of cultural authenticity : Islamist revivalism and enlightenment universalism / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Traditional political values and ideas : an examination of their relevance to developments in contemporary African political order / Kwame Gyekye -- On the interpretation of traditional cultures / Maria L. Herrera.

The concept of progress and cultural identity / Roop Rekha Verma -- Moses, Hsüan-tsang, and history / Agnes Heller -- Secularism : sacred and profane / Daya Krishna -- Scientific progress and content loss / Larry Laudan -- A dialectical view of scientific rationality and progress / Marcello Pera -- Scientific progress reconsidered / Ilkka Niiniluoto -- Does progress in science lead to truth? / Lorenz Krüger.

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