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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817339203321

Autore

Jung Hwa Yol

Titolo

Transversal rationality and intercultural texts : essays in phenomenology and comparative philosophy / / Hwa Yol Jung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8214-4369-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Series in Continental thought

Disciplina

142/.78

Soggetti

Phenomenology

Philosophy, Asian

Philosophy, Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Enlightenment and the question of the other : a postmodern audition --  Transversality and the philosophical politics of multiculturalism in the age of globalization -- Wang Yang-ming and existential phenomenology -- The unity of knowledge and action : a postscript to Wang Yang-ming's existential phenomenology -- Jen : an existential and phenomenological problem of intersubjectivity -- Confucianism and existentialism : intersubjectivity as the way of man -- Heidegger's way with sinitic thinking -- Phenomenology, literary theory, and comparative culture and politics -- Reading/misreading the sinogram : from Fenollosa to Derrida and McLuhan -- Ernest Fenollosa's etymosinology in the age of global communication -- The joy of textualizing Japan : a metacommentary on Roland Barthes's empire of signs -- Revolutionary dialectics : Mao Tse-tung and Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Merleau-Ponty's transversal geophilosophy and sinic aesthetics of nature -- The greening of postmodern philosophy : the ethical question of reinhabiting the earth.

Sommario/riassunto

Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are meant to be a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy.  Transversality is the concept that dispels all ethnocentrisms, including Eurocentrism. In the globalizing world of



multiculturalism, Eurocentric universalism falls far short of being universal but simply parochial at the expense of the non-Western world. Transversality is intercultural, interspecific, interdisciplinary,