Title: Can there be life without the other? /
Authors: Ribeiro, António Pinto
Publisher: Carcanet/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Intercultural communication.; Globalization; Other (Philosophy)
Abstract: Papers from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's conference.
Contents: Introduction / Antonio Pinto Ribeiro -- Dialogue, risk and conviviality / Arjun Appadurai -- Identity and violence : towards a critique of Amartya Sen / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Literature and intercultural dialogue / Eunice de Souza -- Death matters : intimacy, violence and the production of social knowledge by urban youth in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Filip De Boeck -- Difference and similarity : the burden of identity / Jorge Vala -- Can we live without the other? / Karen Armstrong -- A quarrel about diversity? : the post-communist Czech Republic vis-a-vis the new realities of difference / Katerina Brezinova -- Vulnerability, spaces and the building of borders / Manuela Ribeiro Sanches -- Distance and mobility : towards a new understanding of modernism / Ming Tiampo -- Europe and Islam : shared history, shared identity, shared destiny / Mustapha Tlili -- Time to listen to the 'other' while the "other" still exists, before all that's left is the other -- or a neo-animist pre-manifesto / Ruy Duarte de Carvalho -- An intercultural approach to the issue of Islamic extremism / Sherifa Zuhur.