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

Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
16 June 2009
Pages
396
ISBN
9780739122662

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

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

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