Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung

by Park, Jin Y.; Jung, Hwa Yol; Dallmayr, Fred R.; Schrag, Calvin O.; Swazo, Norman K.; Cho, Kah Kyung; Yol, Hwa; Longxi, Zhang; Huang, Yong; Kim, Youngmin; Gardiner, Michael E.; Burke, John Francis; Reid, Herbert; Taylor, Betsy; Murphy, Patrick D.; Benston,

• ISBN13: 9780739122679
• ISBN10: 0739122673
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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 transversality in our scholarship and thinking.

Author Biography

Jin Y. Park is associate professor of philosophy and religion at American University. She is the author of Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics and editor of Buddhisms and Deconstructions and Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Rethinking Philosophy in a Time of Globalization	p. 1
Thinking Others: In the Age of Globalization	p. 17
Transversality and Public Philosophy in the Age of Globalization	p. 19
Finitude and its Horizons: For Hwa Yol Jung	p. 55
Comparative Philosophy and the Politics of Otherness	p. 75
From Crisis to Renovation: Hwa Yol Jung's Contribution to Political Theory	p. 83
Phenomenology as an Idea of Bridging Cultural Divide	p. 103
Hwa Yol Jung's Phenomenology of Asian Philosophy	p. 119
New Horizons in Political Theory: East and West	p. 137
Heaven and Man: From a Cross-Cultural Perspective	p. 139
Neo-Confucian Political Philosophy: The Cheng Brothers versus Contemporary Political Liberals	p. 151
Reconsidering Wang Yangming's Theory of "the Unity of Knowledge and Action"	p. 183
Schüet;tzian Phenomenology and the Everyday Lifeworld: A Bakhtinian Critique	p. 197
Engaging Hwa Yol Jung's Political Theory of Transversality: From the Standpoint of Mestizaje	p. 223
Political Theory, Critical Ecology, and Merleau-Ponty's Path to and from the "Site of Ontological Constitution"	p. 247
Diasporic Imagination: From Ecology to Gender Politics	p. 267
The Confluence of Hwa Yol Jung's Ethics and North American Environmental Literature	p. 269
The Clash of Cultural Identities: Bernard-Marie Koltès' Black Battles with Dogs	p. 287
King Lear and the Ethics of Encounter	p. 307
Dorothy Wordsworth and a Poetics of Caring	p. 331
Vico's Arborescence	p. 345
Selected Bibliography of Hwa Yol Jung's Works in English	p. 355
The Editor and Contributors	p. 363
Index	p. 369
Credits	p. 385
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