Dialogue among Civilizations : Some Exemplary Voices

by Fred Dallmayr

• ISBN13: 9781403960597
• ISBN10: 1403960593
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-12-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Dialogue Among Civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of "civilizational dialogue" by asking questions such as: What is the meaning of such dialogue? What are its preconditions? Are there different trajectories for different civilizations? Is there also a dialogue between past and future involving remembrance? Exemplary voices range from Ibn Rushd, Goethe and Hafiz to Soroush, Gadamer, and the Mahatma Gandhi.

Author Biography

Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He recently published Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
PART I TOWARD A DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS
Dialogue among Civilizations: A Hermeneutical Perspective	17	(14)
Conversation Across Boundaries: E Pluribus Unum?	31	(18)
The Ambivalence of Europe: Western Culture and Its ``Other''	49	(18)
Globalization and Inequality: A Plea for Cosmopolitan Justice	67	(18)
Global Modernization: Toward Different Modernities?	85	(20)
Memory and Social Imagination: Latin American Reflections	105	(16)
PART II SOME EXEMPLARY VOICES
Reason, Faith, and Politics: A Journey to Muslim Andalusia	121	(26)
West-Eastern Divan: Goethe and Hafiz in Dialogue	147	(20)
Islam and Democracy: Reflections on Abdolkarim Soroush	167	(18)
Rethinking Secularism --- with Raimon Panikkar	185	(16)
Freedom East and West: A Tribute to D.P. Chattopadhyaya	201	(12)
What is Self-Rule? Lessons from Gandhi	213	(16)
Notes	229	(46)
Index	275