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Book SynopsisThis title seeks to develop a discouse on different cultures, philosophies and religions. The author approaches the study fo philosophy from a cross-cultural perspective allowing for fundamental similarities and illuminating differences between cultures.
Trade ReviewIntercultural philosophy is a new concept, and Mall is one of the first to give it a concrete context. . . . Well-written, systematically expounded . . . Intercultural Philosophy will be a most important book in the field. -- J. N. Mohanty, Temple University
Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Intercultural Philosophy- A Conceptual Clarification Chapter 4 2 Towards a Theory of an Analogous Hermeneutics Chapter 5 3 Hermeneutics of the One under Different Names Chapter 6 4 Intercultural Philosophy and Postmodernity Chapter 7 5 An Intercultural Philosophy of Unity without Uniformity Chapter 8 6 Two Metaphors of Time-Arrow and Cycle Chapter 9 7 Metonymic Reflections on Shamkara's Concept of Brahman and Plato's Seventh Epistle Chapter 10 8 The God of Phenomenology in Comparative Contrast to that of Philosophy and Theology Chapter 11 9 The Concept of the Absolute- An Intercultural Perspective Chapter 12 10 Europe in the Mirror of World Cultures— On the Myth of the Europeanisation of Humanity. A non-European Discovery of Europe Part 13 Bibliography Part 14 Index Part 15 About the Author
