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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828509503321

Autore

Burik Steven <1970->

Titolo

The end of comparative philosophy and the task of comparative thinking : Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism / / Steven Burik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2742-5

1-4416-2404-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Disciplina

181/.114

Soggetti

Philosophy, Comparative

Taoist philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Heidegger and the Other Commencement -- Derrida -- Rereading Daoism; The Other Way -- Thinking, Philosophy, and Language -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How do differences in language influence comparative philosophy? Although the Orientalism famously described by Edward Said is rare today, Steven Burik maintains that comparative philosophy often subtly privileges one tradition over another since certain conceptual schemes are so embedded in Western languages that it is difficult not to revert to them. Arguing for a new approach that acknowledges how theory and practice cannot be separated in comparative philosophical endeavors, Burik provides nonmetaphysical, deconstructionist readings of Heidegger and Derrida and uses these to give a new reading of classical Daoism. The ideas of language advanced therein can aid the project of comparative philosophy specifically, and philosophies generally, in trying to overcome ways of thinking that have dominated Western philosophy for twenty-five hundred years and still frustrate intercultural encounters.