Worldviews and cultures: philosophical reflections from an intercultural perspective

Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. The present book takes these issues implicitly as its starting point by thoroughly reflecting on them from a perspective of worldviews, as one of many approaches. More specifically, it focuses on people’s implicit and explicit interpretations and assumptions of the world, of themselves and of others. Often deeply rooted and hard to change, they have an important function, for without them we would continually need to question what we do and what we think. In their absolutist form, these assumptions may become a barrier for open-mindedness, and hence for deep intercultural understanding and exchange. We need to find a balance between both stances. A unique combination of authors on intercultural philosophy Reflection on intercultural themes from different cultural backgroundsInteresting reflections on cross-tradition understanding, on those understandings that we are unable to accept from one another as true and just, and on how to get beyond these differences INDICE: From the contents Worldview and Cultures: philosophical reflections from an intercultural perspective. An introduction, N. Note, et al. Ways of the Intellect: Forms of Discourse and Rationalization Processes in the Arabic-Islamic Context, J. Ben Abdeljelil. Comparative Philosophy: a methodological approach, U. Libbrecht. A Methodological Framework for Cross-tradition Understanding and Constructive Engagement, Bo Mou. Cosmopraxis and contextualizing among the contemporary Aymara, K. de Munter, N. Note. A Worldly View of WorldviewMetaphysics, H. Lauer. Andean philosophy as a questioning alterity: An intercultural criticism of Western andro- and ethnocentrism, J. Estermann. Intercultural philosophy from a latin-american perspective, R. Fornet-Betancourt. Hermeneutic philosophy and human experience:

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-4502-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 220
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés