Social Theory and Asian Dialogues Cultivating Planetary Conversations
Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition. Focusing on perspec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Critical Theory and Communicative Action: The Challenge of Legitimation in a World at Risk
- The Gift of the Grain: Beyond Biopolitics?
- Democracy and Meritocracy: A New Inter-Civilizational Challenge
- Afterword: Communication and the Consilience of Eastern and Western Ideas
- Dancing East and West: Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- The Micropolitics and Metaphysics of Mobility and Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Rahul Sankrityayan’s ‘GhumakkaṚ ŚĀatra’ and Gilles Deleuze / FÉlix Guattari’s ‘Nomadology’
- From Ecological Ontology to Social Ecology: John Dewey, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Interscalar Ethics
- Part Three: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Asia, Europe and the Call of Planetary Conversions
- Nature, Culture and the Debate With Modernity: Critical Social Theory in Japan
- The Self-Description of Society in East Asia: If It is Not Society, What Else Could it Be?
- An Intercultural Perspective on Chinese Aesthetics
- Making Sociology Universal: Revisiting the Contributions of Syed Hussein Alatas
- Political Intrusion in Social Science: The Elimination of Leftist Critical Thinking in Indonesia
- Social Welfare and Harmony in East Asia and the Nordic Region
- Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: An Introduction and an Invitation
- Part One: Theorizing as Dancing Transformations: Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and Beyond
- Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations
- Theorizing Alternative Futures of Asia: Activating Enabling Traditions
- Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South
- Beyond Ethnocentrism: Towards a Global Social Theory
- Part Two: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Creative Engagement and Transformative Learning
- Selfhood and Morality: East-Asian and Western Dimensions
- Iridescent Self in the Womb of the Wholly M(O)ther: A Vajrayani Meditation
- TheTaijitu, Western Dialectics, and Brain Hemisphere Function: A Dialogue facilitated by the Scholarship of Complex Integration
- A Middle Way of Emptying Dualism in Social Theory
- Indo-Chinese Knowledge and Wisdom: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between Confucius and Tiruvalluvar