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Book SynopsisPhenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy explores the concept of world philosophy (Weltphilosophie) to take into account the reality of today's multicultural and globalizing world. It challenges the assumption that the particular in the West is universalizable, but the particular in the non-West is particular forever, using the concept of transversality to construct an intercontinental philosophy. In the tradition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world literature (Weltliteratur), and in dialogue with work in ethics and political philosophy, Hwa Yol Jung examines the roles that phenomenology and transversality play in constructing world philosophy.
Trade Review“Hwa Yol Jung charts incisively how transversality, as an ethics, philosophy, and way of being, moves creatively in-between the binary ‘anarchy of differences’ versus ‘totalitarianism of identity’ that paralyzes contemporary political praxis. Whether it be discussing sincerity, harmony, alterity, or the ethics of responsibility, Jung’s scholarly reflections, with a Sinic accent, embodies the Dao of transversal phenomenology – a dialogic engagement with the other so desperately needed in a time of polarization.”
-- John Francis Burke, Trinity University
Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Jung
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Origins of Transversality
1The Dao of Transversality as a Global Approach to Truth: A Metacommentary on Calvin O. Schrag
Chapter 1 Addendum: Review Essay on Calvin O. Schrag’s The Self after Postmodernity (1997)
2Transversality and Geophilosophy in the Age of Globalization
3The Task of Public Philosophy in the Transversal World of Politics
4Edward O. Wilson’s Theory of Consilience: A Hermeneutical Critique
Part II Two Elemental Preconditions of World Philosophy
5Transversality, Harmony, and Humanity between Heaven and Earth
6Phenomenology and Body Politics
Part III World Literature and World Philosophy
7Zhang Longxi’s Contribution to World Literature in the Globalizing World of
Multiculturalism
8Wang Yangming and the Way of World Philosophy
9Transversality and Fred Dallmayr’s Comparative Political Theory
10Edouard Glissant’s Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization
Part IV Heterotopia and Responsibility as First Ethics
11Reading Maurice Natanson Reading Alfred Schutz
12Responsibility as First Ethics: John Macmurray and Emmanuel Levinas
13Taking Responsibility Seriously
14Václav Havel’s New Statecraft of Responsible Politics
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