Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy

Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy explores the concept of world philosophy (Weltphilosophie) to take into account the reality of today's multicultural and globalizing world, as well as the constructive roles played by phenomenology and transversality.

List of contents

Foreword by Michael Jung
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Origins of Transversality
1 The 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)
2 Transversality and Geophilosophy in the Age of Globalization
3 The Task of Public Philosophy in the Transversal World of Politics
4 Edward O. Wilson's Theory of Consilience: A Hermeneutical Critique
Part II Two Elemental Preconditions of World Philosophy
5 Transversality, Harmony, and Humanity between Heaven and Earth
6 Phenomenology and Body Politics
Part III World Literature and World Philosophy
7 Zhang Longxi's Contribution to World Literature in the Globalizing World of
Multiculturalism
8 Wang Yangming and the Way of World Philosophy
9 Transversality and Fred Dallmayr's Comparative Political Theory
10 Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization
Part IV Heterotopia and Responsibility as F

About the author

Hwa Yol Jung was professor emeritus at Moravian College.

Summary

Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy explores the concept of world philosophy (Weltphilosophie) to take into account the reality of today’s multicultural and globalizing world, as well as the constructive roles played by phenomenology and transversality.

Product details

• Authors: Hwa Yol Jung, Jung Hwa Yol
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781498520409
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2040-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, Political science & theory, Literature: history & criticism, Political science and theory, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Literature: history and criticism, Phenomenology and Existentialism