Culture and modernity
Subtitle: East-West philosophic perspectives
By: edited by Eliot Deutsch.
Contributors: Deutsch, Eliot.; East-West Philosophers' Conference (6th : 1989 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 641
Subjects: Philosophy and civilization -- Congresses; Civilization, Modern -- Congresses; East and West -- Congresses; Philosophy, Modern -- Congresses; Philosophy, Asian -- Congresses
Description: The crisis of modernity -- Incommensurability -- Relativism -- Language and non-Western cultural traditions -- Culture and the ethical -- Culture and the aesthetic -- Culture and the religious -- Culture and the political -- Cultural identity -- Scientific progress.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays selected from papers presented at the Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference, August 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii.