Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy (Volume 40) (Series In Continental Thought)

Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are meant to be a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy. Transversality is the concept that dispels all ethnocentrisms, including Eurocentrism. In the globalizing world of multiculturalism, Eurocentric universalism falls far short of being universal but simply parochial at the expense of the non-Western world. Transversality is intercultural, interspecific, interdisciplinary, and intersensorial. "Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts" means to transform the very way of philosophizing itself by infusing or hybridizing multiple traditions in the history of the world. Like no other scholar, Jung bridges the gap between Asian and Western cultures. What is traditionally called "comparative philosophy" is not just a neglected branch of philosophy; it is poised to radically transform the very conception of philosophy itself. Contents ......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Part I: Prelude to Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy......Page 18 1: Enlightenment and the Question of the Other......Page 20 Part II: Transversality, Phenomenology, and Intercultural Texts......Page 30 2: Transversality and the Philosophical Politics of Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization......Page 32 Part III: Transversal Linkage between Phenomenology and Asian Philosophy......Page 52 3: Wang Yang-Ming and Existential Phenomenology......Page 54 4: The Unity of Knowledge and Action......Page 73 5: Jen......Page 89 6: Confucianism and Existentialism......Page 104 7: Heidegger’s Way with Sinitic Thinking......Page 119 Part IV: Phenomenology, Literary Theory, and Comparative Culture and Politics......Page 144 8: Reading/Misreading the Sinogram......Page 146 9: Ernest Fenollosa’s Etymosinology in the Age of Global Communication......Page 158 10: The Joy of Textualizing Japan......Page 180 11: Revolutionary Dialectics......Page 196 Part V: The Fleshfold of the Earth: Green Thought, East and West......Page 226 12: Merleau-Ponty’s Transversal Geophilosophy and Sinic Aesthetics of Nature......Page 228 13: The Greening of Postmodern Philosophy......Page 246 Notes......Page 266 Bibliography......Page 338 Index......Page 410 Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are meant to be a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy. Transversality is the concept that dispels all ethnocentrisms, including Eurocentrism. In the globalizing world of multiculturalism, Eurocentric universalism falls far short of being universal but simply parochial at the expense of the non-Western world. Transversality is intercultural, interspecific, interdisciplinary, and intersensorial. Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts means to transform the very way of philosophizing itself by infusing or hybridizing multiple traditions in the history of the world. Like no other scholar, Jung bridges the gap between Asian and Western cultures. By engaging Western philosophers as diverse as Bacon, Descartes, Heidegger, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Glissant, Barthes, Fenollosa, McLuhan, and Eastern philosophers such as Wang Yang-ming, Nishida Kitaro, Nishitani Keiji, Watsuji Tetsuro, Nhat Hanh, and Suzuki Daisetz Teitaro, this book marks an unparalleled contribution to comparative philosophy and the study of philosophy itself. Enlightenment and the question of the other : a postmodern audition Transversality and the philosophical politics of multiculturalism in the age of globalization Wang Yang-ming and existential phenomenology The unity of knowledge and action : a postscript to Wang Yang-ming's existential phenomenology Jen : an existential and phenomenological problem of intersubjectivity Confucianism and existentialism : intersubjectivity as the way of man Heidegger's way with sinitic thinking Phenomenology, literary theory, and comparative culture and politics Reading/misreading the sinogram : from Fenollosa to Derrida and McLuhan Ernest Fenollosa's etymosinology in the age of global communication The joy of textualizing Japan : a metacommentary on Roland Barthes's empire of signs Revolutionary dialectics : Mao Tse-tung and Maurice Merleau-Ponty Merleau-Ponty's transversal geophilosophy and sinic aesthetics of nature The greening of postmodern philosophy : the ethical question of reinhabiting the earth. Jung (emeritus political science, Moravian College, Pennsylvania) has collected 13 essays originally published between 1965 and 2009 that provide a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy. Among his topics are transversality and the philosophical politics of multiculturalism in the age of globalization, Confucianism and existentialism, Ernest Fenollosa's etymosinology in the age of global communication, the revolutionary dialectics of Mao Tse-tung and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the ethical question of reinhabiting the Earth. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)