Dialogue Among Civilizations: Some Exemplary Voices (Culture and Religion in International Relations) - Softcover

Dallmayr, F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403960607 ISBN 13: 9781403960603

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

Dialogue Among Civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of "civilizational dialogue" by asking questions like these: What is the meaning of such dialogue? What are its preconditions? Are there different trajectories for different civilizations? Is there also a dialogue between past and future involving remembrance? Exemplary voices range from Ibn Rushd, Goethe and Hafiz to Soroush, Gadamer, and the Mahatma Gandhi.

About this title

About the Author:

FRED DALLMAYR, is a political theorist specializing in modern and contemporary European thought. He recently published Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). He has been the recipient of NEH and Fulbright fellowships, and has been a visiting professor at the New School and the University of Hamburg. In addition to his many articles, he has authored 12 books, including Critical Encounters (Notre Dame), and Between Freiburg and Frankfurt: Toward a Critical Ontology (Massachusetts).

Synopsis:

This volume explores the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of "civilizational dialogue". Relying in part on the work of Hans Georg Gadamer, Dallmayr seeks to clarify the meaning of "civilization", to concretize that meaning through the hermeneutics of Western civilization and to delineate the significance of dialogue carried on in the context of the nascent global city or cosmopolis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403960607
• ISBN 13: 9781403960603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293