By Hwa Yol Jung
ISBN-10: 0821419552
ISBN-13: 9780821419557
ISBN-10: 0821443690
ISBN-13: 9780821443699
Transversality is the key-phrase that permeates the spirit of those 13 essays spanning nearly part a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are supposed to be a transversal linkage among phenomenology and East Asian philosophy. Transversality is the idea that dispels all ethnocentrisms, together with Eurocentrism. within the globalizing global of multiculturalism, Eurocentric universalism falls a ways in need of being common yet easily parochial on the rate of the non-Western global. Transversality is intercultural, interspecific, interdisciplinary, and intersensorial. Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts ability to remodel the very approach of philosophizing itself by means of infusing or hybridizing a number of traditions within the heritage of the world. Like no different student, Jung bridges the distance among Asian and Western cultures. what's commonly referred to as “comparative philosophy” is not only a missed department of philosophy; it really is poised to noticeably remodel the very belief of philosophy itself.
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11 Transversality goes beyond the hierarchized binary oppositions, for example, between mind (the rational) and body (the sensorial), man and woman, humanity and nature, East and West, and North and South. It leaves behind the essentialized notion that what is particular in the West is universalized or universalizable, whereas what is particular in the East remains forever particular. To draw insights from Leszek Kolakowski, what the “priestly” is to Eurocentric universality, the “jesterly” is to transversality.
The history of philosophy both Eastern and Western has been overshadowed by hedgehogs. In the world of multiculturalism and globalization, the balance should be shifted to the voice of foxes. In other words, the monistic voice of the universalist gives way to the pluralistic voice of the transversalist. The newly emerging face of the Maitreyan Middle Way mediates and facilitates cultural, disciplinary, speciesistic, and sensorial border crossings. 61 It cannot be otherwise. It is high time to put an end to the metaphor of philosophy as the “owl of Minerva” that takes its flight at dusk.
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Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy by Hwa Yol Jung
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