Comparative Political Culture in the Age of Globalization An Introductory Anthology

by Jung, Hwa Yol; Butler, Judith; Campbell, David; Chow, Rey; Dallmayr, Fred; Dussell, Enrique; Jung, Kim Dae; Jung, Hwa Yol; Liu, Lydia H.; Mahbubani, Kishore; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice; Mohanty, Chandra Talpade; Hanh, Thich Nhat; Kitaro, Nishida; Parekh, Bhik

• ISBN13: 9780739103180
• ISBN10: 0739103180
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-29
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

With its specific focus on Asia, this anthology constitutes an excursion into the realm of transversality, or the state of 'postethnicity,' which, the book argues, has come to characterize the global culture of our times. Hwa Yol Jung brings together prominent contemporary thinkers--including Thich Nhat Hanh, Edward Said, and Judith Butler--to address this fundamental and important aspect of comparative political theory. The book is divided into three parts. Part One demythologizes Eurocentrism, deconstructing the privilege of modern Europe as the world's cultural, scientific, religious, and moral capital. Part Two traces the rise of Asian thought and the process of East-West cultural hybridization, while Part Three introduces the concept of the 'global citizen.' Jung's anthology reveals a postmodern multiculturalism whose new philosophical matrix transgresses the existing cultural and intellectual typology to offer new understanding of today's pluralistic world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(24)
Part I. Beyond Eurocentrism
Everywhere and Nowhere	25	(32)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity	57	(26)
Enrique Dussel
The Myth of the Other: China in the Eyes of the West	83	(26)
Zhang Longxi
The Dream of a Butterfly	109	(28)
Rey Chow
The Joy of Textualizing Japan: A Metacommentary on Roland Barthes's Empire of Signs	137	(22)
Hwa Yol Jung
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses	159	(32)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Part II. Asian Thought in the Age of Globalization
Can Asians Think?	191	(14)
Kishore Mahbubani
The Order of Interbeing	205	(8)
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Forms of Culture of the Classical Periods of East and West Seen from a Metaphysical Perspective	213	(18)
Nishida Kitaro
The Significance of Ethics as the Study of Man	231	(20)
Watsuji Tetsuro
Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality	251	(16)
Tu Weiming
Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia's Anti-Democratic Values	267	(8)
Kim Dae Jung
Conceptualizing Human Beings	275	(30)
Bhikhu Parekh
Part III. Toward a Transtopia
The Problem of Language in Cross-Cultural Studies	305	(52)
Lydia H. Liu
Universality in Culture	357	(6)
Judith Butler
The Clash of Definitions	363	(18)
Edward W. Said
Hermeneutical Circles, Rhetorical Triangles, and Transversal Diagonals	381	(16)
Calvin O. Schrag
Political Prosaics, Transversal Politics, and the Anarchical World	397	(22)
David Campbell
Polis and Cosmopolis	419	(24)
Fred Dallmayr
Further Readings	443	(6)
Contributors	449