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Horizons of difference [electronic resource] : engaging with others / Fred Dallmayr

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Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928-
Published
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xiii, 241 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents
Introduction: A Paradigm Shift? -- Part One. Rationality and Difference: After Babel: Journeying toward the Global City of pPeace -- Continuity and Historical Change: Remembering Jacques Maritain -- Sacred Secularity and Prophetism: Notes o Raimon Panikkar -- Apophatic Community: Yannaras on Relational Being -- A Heart and Mind Unity: Gandhi and Islam -- Five Relations Plus One: Confucianism and Public Life -- Part Two. Engagement through Dialogue and Interaction: Self and Other: Gadamer and the Hermeneutics of Difference -- Border Crossings: Waldenfels on Decentered Dialogue -- Justice, Power, and Dialogue: Humanizing Politics -- Befriending the Stranger: Beyond the Global Politics of Fear -- Dialogue among Faiths: The Dignity of Religious Difference -- Epilogue: Peace in the Horizons of Difference.
Summary
"In his latest book, Horizons of Difference: Engaging with Others, Fred Dallmayr argues that the dialogue between religious and secular commitments, between faith and reason, is particularly important in our time because both faith and reason can give rise to dangerous and destructive types of extremism, fanaticism, or idolatry. In this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural synthesis of philosophy, religious thought, and political theory, Dallmayr neither accepts the "clash of cultures" dichotomy nor denies the reality of cultural tensions. Instead, operating from the standpoint of philosophical hermeneutics, he embraces cultural difference as a necessary condition and opportunity for mutual cross-cultural dialogue and learning. In part 1, "Relationality and Difference," Dallmayr explores the emergence of diverse loyalties and attachments in different social and cultural contexts. The assumption is not that different commitments are necessarily synchronized or "naturally" compatible but rather that they are held together precisely by their difference and potential antagonism. Part 2, "Engagement through Dialogue and Interaction," dwells on the major means of mediating between the alternatives of radical separation and radical sameness: the means of dialogue and hermeneutical interpretation of understanding. In this respect, the emphasis shifts to leading philosophers of dialogue such as Gadamer, Bernhard Waldenfels, and Merleau-Ponty. In a world where the absolutizing of the ego encourages selfish egotism that can lead to aggressive war-mongering, Horizons of Difference shows how the categories of "difference" and "relationality" can be used to build a genuine and peaceful democracy based on dialogue and interaction instead of radical autonomy and elitism"--
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ISBN
0268108501 paperback
9780268108502 paperback
9780268108496 hardcover
0268108498 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-233) and index.
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