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Phenomenology and intercultural understanding

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Phenomenology and intercultural understanding

Kwok-ying La

Switzerland

Springer

2016

1 online resource

Contributions to phenomenology ;volume 87

Series: Contributions to phenomenology ;v. 87

Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Cultural Flesh and Intercultural Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach; 1.1 The Need for Intercultural Understanding; 1.2 Antithetic Aspects of Husserlian Phenomenology with Respect to Intercultural Understanding: the Closed-??Nature of Husserl's Idea of Philosophy and the Openness of the Phenomenological Method and Practices; 1.3 Three Aspects of Intercultural Understanding in Philosophy; 1.4 Cultural Flesh and Its Cultivation: The Way to Enter into the Horizon of Another Culture Chapter 2: Para-deconstruction: Preliminary Considerations for a Phenomenology of Interculturality2.1 A Double Epoch??; 2.2 Husserl: Double Exclusion; 2.3 Derridian Deconstruction: Cultural Transgression Forbidden; 2.4 Para-deconstruction: Deconstruction and Re-appropriation; 2.5 L??vi-Strauss: Hybridity of Cultural Formations; 2.6 Merleau-Ponty: From the Pre-objective World to Inter-worlds; Chapter 3: To What Extent Can Phenomenology Do Justice to Chinese Philosophy? A Phenomenological Reading of Laozi; 3.1 Contrasting Attitudes in the Western Representation of Chinese Philosophy 3.1.1 Daoist Philosophy as Anti-rationalism3.1.2 Philosophical Daoism as One of "Heidegger's Hidden Sources"; 3.2 Is a Phenomenological Reading of Chinese Philosophy Committed to Eurocentrism? Return to Husserl's Eurocentric Conception of Philosophy; 3.3 Elements of a Phenomenological Reading of Laozi; 3.3.1 Dao as Inchoative Nature; 3.3.2 Deployment of the Dao: Dialectic and Retrieval; 3.3.3 Characteristics of the Dao: Vacuity and Quietude, Tenderness and Weakness; 3.4 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4: Husserl, Buddhism and the Crisis of European Sciences 4.1 Husserl, Hegel and the Eurocentric Conception of Philosophy4.2 Husserl's Praise of Buddhist Scriptures; 4.3 Buddha: The Eastern Socrates?; 4.4 Husserl's Conception of Philosophy, the Crisis of European Sciences and Buddhism; Chapter 5: Jan Pato??ka: Critical Consciousness and Non-??Eurocentric Philosopher of the Phenomenological Movement; 5.1 Introduction: Pato??ka as Non-Eurocentric Phenomenological Philosopher; 5.2 Pato??ka's Significance for the Chinese Philosophical Community Today; 5.3 Pato??ka as the Critical Consciousness of the Phenomenological Movement 5.4 Post-European Humanity and the Aporia of the Meaning of History5.5 Phenomenology of the Natural World and Its Promise; 5.6 In the Place of a Conclusion; Chapter 6: Europe Beyond Europe: Pato??ka's Concept of Care for the Soul and Mencius. An Intercultural Consideration; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Pato??ka's Critical Reading of Husserl's Diagnosis of the Crisis of European Humanity; 6.3 Care for the Soul and the Philosophical Anthropology Underlying the Mythical Framework of the Greeks This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient and contemporary Chinese philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are provided: the reader will find a study of theoretical and methodological issues and innovative readings of traditional Chinese and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological perspective. The author uses a descriptive rigor to avoid cultural prejudices and provides a non-Eurocentric conception and practice of philosophy. Through this East-West comparative study, a compelling criticism of a Eurocentric conception of philosophy emerges. New concepts and methods in intercultural philosophy are proposed through these chapters. Researchers, teachers, post-graduates and students of philosophy will all find this work intriguing, and those with an interest in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will find it particularly engaging

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toward a new cultural flesh

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