Social Theory and Asian Dialogues Cultivating Planetary Conversations /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Giri, Ananta Kumar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Globalization.; Ethnology-Asia.; Social Theory.; Asian Culture.

Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition. Focusing on perspec...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: An Introduction and an Invitation
• Part One: Theorizing as Dancing Transformations: Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and Beyond
• Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations
• Theorizing Alternative Futures of Asia: Activating Enabling Traditions
• Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South
• Beyond Ethnocentrism: Towards a Global Social Theory
• Part Two: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Creative Engagement and Transformative Learning
• Selfhood and Morality: East-Asian and Western Dimensions
• Iridescent Self in the Womb of the Wholly M(O)ther: A Vajrayani Meditation
• The Taijitu, Western Dialectics, and Brain Hemisphere Function: A Dialogue facilitated by the Scholarship of Complex Integration
• A Middle Way of Emptying Dualism in Social Theory
• Indo-Chinese Knowledge and Wisdom: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between Confucius and Tiruvalluvar
• Dancing East and West: Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
• The Micropolitics and Metaphysics of Mobility and Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Rahul Sankrityayan's 'GhumakkaṚ ŚĀatra' and Gilles Deleuze / FÉlix Guattari's 'Nomadology'
• From Ecological Ontology to Social Ecology: John Dewey, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Interscalar Ethics
• Part Three: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Asia, Europe and the Call of Planetary Conversions
• Nature, Culture and the Debate With Modernity: Critical Social Theory in Japan
• The Self-Description of Society in East Asia: If It is Not Society, What Else Could it Be?
• An Intercultural Perspective on Chinese Aesthetics
• Making Sociology Universal: Revisiting the Contributions of Syed Hussein Alatas
• Political Intrusion in Social Science: The Elimination of Leftist Critical Thinking in Indonesia
• Social Welfare and Harmony in East Asia and the Nordic Region
• Critical Theory and Communicative Action: The Challenge of Legitimation in a World at Risk
• The Gift of the Grain: Beyond Biopolitics?
• Democracy and Meritocracy: A New Inter-Civilizational Challenge
• Afterword: Communication and the Consilience of Eastern and Western Ideas.