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By Kwok-Ying Lau
This ebook ways the subject of intercultural realizing in philosophy from a phenomenological point of view. It presents a bridge among Western and japanese philosophy via in-depth dialogue of techniques and doctrines of phenomenology and historical and modern chinese language philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are supplied: the reader will discover a examine of theoretical and methodological concerns and leading edge readings of conventional chinese language and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological viewpoint. the writer makes use of a descriptive rigor to prevent cultural prejudices and gives a non-Eurocentric belief and perform of philosophy. via this East-West comparative examine, a compelling feedback of a Eurocentric notion of philosophy emerges. New options and strategies in intercultural philosophy are proposed via those chapters. Researchers, academics, post-graduates and scholars of philosophy will all locate this paintings interesting, and people with an curiosity in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will locate it fairly enticing.
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If we follow the Husserlian gesture, any form of intercultural philosophical exchange is simply impossible. Because Husserl’s conception of philosophy entails that from the very beginning there is only one genuine way of philosophizing: the Greek one. With Europe possessing the monopoly over the reappropriation of the heritage of Greek thinkers, there exists then only one philosophical language in the proper sense: the language of Euro-logocentrism. There is of course no difficulty to concede that non-Europeans are able as well to discourse on European philosophy, but this is only a monologue within the European philosophical culture itself, for the subject matters, the concepts, the languages used (on the double sense of the natural language and the philosophical language) are nothing other than those admitted as being part of European philosophy.
He only has to have learned at some time and at sufficient length to let himself be taught by another culture. 51 In short, intercultural understanding in philosophy in practice is a matter of navigation between inter-worlds. This will is the task and the guiding principle of the following chapters. 47 Merleau-Ponty, Le visible et l’invisible, pp. 172ff; The Visible and the Invisible, pp. 130ff. f. the discussion of Merleau-Ponty himself in “De Mauss à Claude Lévi-Strauss”, Signes, pp. 143–157; Signs, pp.
1007/978-3-319-44764-3_2 21 22 2 Para-deconstruction Phenomenology of Interculturality kind of intellectual journey which requires the stature of a Husserl to be qualified as a beginner? And if he does, how should he understand the nature of the work he is undertaking? 6 Hence, to overcome the naïveté standing in the way to our philosophical reflection we have to ask: what conditions or pre-conditions are at the basis of an intercultural philosophical exchange on the theme of “Interculturality and Life-World”?