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Book SynopsisThe objective of the following collected volume is to encourage a critical reflection on the relationship between power and non-power in our contemporary world and, proceeding from various philosophical traditions, to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this relationship. The authorsâ respective investigations proceed from an intercultural perspective and fall predominantly in the domain of political theory and philosophy.
This volume takes an intercultural political perspective, which means, on the one hand, involving non-European philosophies in a global debate about power relations and their effects in the world and, on the other hand, confronting local traditions of thought with a global inquiry in order to enter into a philosophical-political dialogue with these traditions. An intercultural approach of this type to political philosophy seeks not only to join others in reflecting upon global problems, but also to decenter of our understanding of the world, drawing atte
Table of Contents
Foreword
Sarhan Dhouib
Part I. Interculturality as the Basis for a Philosophy of Coexistence
1. Intercultural Philosophy as Philosophy for Better Human Conviviality
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
2. Responses to Past Injustice in Democratizing Societies and the Universalization of Human Rights
Sarhan Dhouib
3. Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude
Albert Kasanda
Part II. Human Being in Times of Displacement
4. The Value of Home in a Global World: On Migration and Depopulated Landscapes
Bianca Boteva-Richter
5. A Genealogy of Displacement in the South African Land Question
Christopher Allsobrook
Part III. Being with Others: Applied Dimensions and Real-World Problems
6. The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims in Eastern Europe
Plamen Makariev
7. Cultural Impoverishment: The Hidden Dimension of Global Injustice
Mongi Serbaji
8. "Detention and Torture Centers" in Latin American Dictatorships: Places of Subjective and Social Reconfiguration
José Santos Herceg
Part IV. Intercultural Approaches to Reconciliation
9. Confucian Remonstrance in the Dialectics of Self-Conscious Identity between the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong
James Garrison
10. Politics and Reconciliation: The Issue of Comfort Women in the Dynamics of Political Reconciliation between Japan and South Korea
Naoko Kumagai
11. Political Reconciliation in Liberal States
Henning Hahn
Afterword
James Garrison
