Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding [electronic resource] : Toward a New Cultural Flesh /
Lau, Kwok-Ying.author.
This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient and contemporary Chinese philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are provided: the reader will find a study of theoretical and methodological issues and innovative readings of traditional Chinese and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological perspective. The author uses a descriptive rigor to avoid cultural prejudices and provides a non-Eurocentric conception and practice of philosophy. Through this East-West comparative study, a compelling criticism of a Eurocentric conception of philosophy emerges. New concepts and methods in intercultural philosophy are proposed through these chapters. Researchers, teachers, post-graduates and students of philosophy will all find this work intriguing, and those with an interest in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will find it particularly engaging.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Author’s Preface -- Introduction: Cultural Flesh and Intercultural Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach -- Para-deconstruction: Preliminary Considerations for a Phenomenology of Interculturality -- To What Extent Can Phenomenology Do Justice To Chinese Philosophy? Attempt at a Phenomenological Reading of Laoz -- Husserl, Buddhism and the Crisis of European Sciences -- Jan Patočka: Critical Consciousness and Non-Eurocentric Philosopher of the Phenomenological Movement -- Patočka’s Concept of Europe: an Intercultural Consideration -- Disenchanted World-view and Intercultural Understanding: from Husserl through Kant to Chinese Culture -- Self-transformation and the Ethical Telos: Orientative Philosophy in Lao Sze-Kwang, Foucault and Husserl -- Lévi-Strauss and Merleau-Ponty: from Nature-Culture Distinction to Savage Spirit and their Intercultural Implications -- The Flesh: from Ontological Employment to Intercultural Employment -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.
This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient and contemporary Chinese philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are provided: the reader will find a study of theoretical and methodological issues and innovative readings of traditional Chinese and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological perspective. The author uses a descriptive rigor to avoid cultural prejudices and provides a non-Eurocentric conception and practice of philosophy. Through this East-West comparative study, a compelling criticism of a Eurocentric conception of philosophy emerges. New concepts and methods in intercultural philosophy are proposed through these chapters. Researchers, teachers, post-graduates and students of philosophy will all find this work intriguing, and those with an interest in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will find it particularly engaging.
Phenomenology .
Philosophy, Asian.
Phenomenology.
Cultural Studies.
Non-Western Philosophy.