Dialogue among civilizations / Fred R. Dallmayr

No review available on this record. Title : Dialogue among civilizations : some exemplary voices Material Type: printed text Authors: Fred R. Dallmayr, Author Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillian Publication Date: 2002 Pagination: xi, 282 p. Size: 22 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-1-403-96060-3 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-273) and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Comparative civilization Intercultural communication Class number: 909 Abstract: "Dialogue Among Civilizations"- explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of 'civilizational dialogue' by asking questions such as : What is the meaning of such dialogue? What are its preconditions? Are there different trajectories for different civilizations? Is there also a dialogue between past and future involving remembrance? Exemplary voices range from Ibn Rushd, Goethe and Hafiz to Soroush, Gadamer, and the Mahatma Gandhi. Contents note: Preface; Introduction; Toward a dialogue among civilizations; Dialogue among civilizations : A hermeneutical perspective; Conversation across boundaries: E pluribus Unum?; The Ambivalence of Europe: Western culture and its “Other”; Globalization and inequality: A plea for cosmopolitan justice; Global modernization : Toward different modernities?; Memory and social imagination: Latin American reflections; Some Exemplary voices; Reason, Faith, and Politics: A journey to Muslim Andalusia; West-Eastern Divan : Goethe and Hafiz in dialogue; Islam and democracy: Reflections on Abdolkarim Soroush; Rethinking Secularism-with Raimon Panikkar; Freedom East and West : A tribute to D.P. Chattopadhyaya; What is Self-Rule? Lessons from Ghandi; Notes; Index; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15475

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The dignity of difference / Jonathan Sacks

No review available on this record. Title : The dignity of difference : how to avoid the clash of civilizations Material Type: printed text Authors: Jonathan Sacks, Author Publisher: London : Continuum Publication Date: 2003 Pagination: viii, 216 p. Size: 21 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-8264-6850-5 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-216) and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Civilization, Modern - 1950- Comparative civilization Globalization Peace - Religious aspects Religions - Relations Class number: 291.172 Abstract: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks presents a proposal for reframing the terms of this important debate. The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization, it introduces a new paradigm into the search for co-existence. Sacks argues that we must do more than search for common human values. We must also learn to make space for difference, even and especially at the heart of the monotheistic imagination. The global future will call for something stronger than earlier doctrines of toleration or pluralism. It needs a new understanding that the unity of the Creator is expressed in the diversity of creation. Sacks argues that this new thinking also sheds fresh light on the global challenges of an age of unprecedented change : economic inequality, environmental destruction, the connection between information technology and human dignity, and the structures of civil society. Contents note: Prologue; Globalization and its discontents; The dignity of difference : exorcizing Plato's ghost; Control : the imperative of responsibility; Contribution : the moral case for the market economy; Compassion : the idea of Tzedakah; Creativity : the imperative of education; Co-operation : civil society and its institutions; Conservation : environmental sustainability; Conciliation : the power of a world to change the world; A covenant of hope; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3075

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The sociology of philosophies / Randall Collins

No review available on this record. Title : The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual change Material Type: printed text Authors: Randall Collins, Author Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Publication Date: 1998 Pagination: xix, 1098 p. Layout: ill., maps Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-674-00187-9 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 1035-1068) and indexes Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Comparative civilization Philosophy - History Sociology of Knowledge Class number: 306.4 Abstract: A comprehensive history of world philosophy, this book is also a social history of global intellectual life. Eschewing polemics, it presents a sophisticated view of the multiple cultures of world history, disintegrates stereotypes of regional cultures, and reveals how creativity is driven by a range of conflicting positions in each community. We see what is sociologically universal about Western, Indian, and Asian intellectual life, as well as what combinations of social ingredients have produced their divergent pathways. Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought in China, Japan, India, ancient Greece, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a general theory of intellectual life, one that avoids both the reduction of ideas to the influences of society at large and the purely contingent local construction of meanings. Instead, Collins focuses on the social locations where sophisticated ideas are formed: the patterns of intellectual networks and their inner divisions and conflicts. His theory describes how, when the material bases of intellectual life shift with the rise and fall of religions, educational systems, and publishing markets, opportunities open for some networks to expand while others shrink and close down. It locates individuals - among them celebrated thinkers like Socrates, Aristotle, Chu Hsi, Shankara, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger - within these networks and explains the emotional and symbolic processes that, by forming coalitions within the mind, ultimately bring about original and historically successful ideas. A self-reflexive sociological philosophy of intellectual life, Collins's work aims to open a path beyond relativsm and realism. Contents note: Introduction The Skeleton of Theory; Coalitions in the Mind; Networks across the Generations; Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece; Comparative History of Intellectual Communities; Asian Paths; Innovation by Opposition: Ancient; External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India; Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China; Innovation through Conservatism: Japan; The Ingredients of Intellectual Life; Comparative History of Intellectual Communities; Western Paths; Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom; Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom; Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science; Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality; Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution; The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles; The Ideology of the Continental-Anglo Split Meta-Reflection; Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas; Epilogue: Sociological Realism. Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15304

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