1st Edition

Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective Power Relations in a Global World

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

The 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 authors’ respective investigations proceed from an intercultural perspective and fall predominantly in the... Read more

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

Biography

Bianca Boteva-Richter is Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Austria).

Sarhan Dhouib is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim (Germany).

James Garrison is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baldwin Wallace University (USA).