Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation 9780824878627
Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is
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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Conversations of Place in Intercultural Philosophy
1. Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the Zhuangzi
2. Between Local and Global: The Place of Comparative Philosophy through Heidegger and Daoism
3. About the Taking Place of Intercultural Philosophy as Polylogue
4. Place and Horizon
5. The Proximate and the Distant: Place and Response-Ability
Part II. The Critical Interplay of Place and Personal Identity
6. Where Is My Mind? On the Emplacement of Self by Others
7. Accommodation, Location, and Context: Conceptualization of Place in Indian Traditions of Thought
Part III. Personhood and Environmental Emplacement
8. Public Reason and Ecological Truth
9. The Wisdom of Place: Lithuanian Philosophical Philotopy of Arvydas Šliogeris and Its Relevance to Global Environmental Challenges
10. Landscape as Scripture: Dōgen’s Concept of Meaningful Nature
Part IV. Shared Places of Politics and Religion
11. Public Places and Privileged Spaces: Perspectives on the Public Sphere and the Sphere of Privilege in China and the West
12. Seeking a Place for Earthly Universality in Modern Japan: Suzuki Daisetz, Chikazumi Jōkan, and Miyazawa Kenji
13. Transforming Sacred Space into Shared Place: Reinterpreting Gandhi on Temple Entry
14. Israel and Palestine: A Two-Place, One-Space Solution
Part V. The Emotionally Emplaced Body
15. Exile as “Place” for Empathy
16. Sprouts, Mountains, and Fields: Symbol and Sustainability in Mengzi’s Moral Psychology
17. The Place of the Body in the Phenomenology of Place: Edward Casey and Nishida Kitarō
18. Putting the Dead in Their Place
Contributors
Index
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Conversations of Place in Intercultural Philosophy
1. Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the Zhuangzi
2. Between Local and Global: The Place of Comparative Philosophy through Heidegger and Daoism
3. About the Taking Place of Intercultural Philosophy as Polylogue
4. Place and Horizon
5. The Proximate and the Distant: Place and Response-Ability
Part II. The Critical Interplay of Place and Personal Identity
6. Where Is My Mind? On the Emplacement of Self by Others
7. Accommodation, Location, and Context: Conceptualization of Place in Indian Traditions of Thought
Part III. Personhood and Environmental Emplacement
8. Public Reason and Ecological Truth
9. The Wisdom of Place: Lithuanian Philosophical Philotopy of Arvydas Šliogeris and Its Relevance to Global Environmental Challenges
10. Landscape as Scripture: Dōgen’s Concept of Meaningful Nature
Part IV. Shared Places of Politics and Religion
11. Public Places and Privileged Spaces: Perspectives on the Public Sphere and the Sphere of Privilege in China and the West
12. Seeking a Place for Earthly Universality in Modern Japan: Suzuki Daisetz, Chikazumi Jōkan, and Miyazawa Kenji
13. Transforming Sacred Space into Shared Place: Reinterpreting Gandhi on Temple Entry
14. Israel and Palestine: A Two-Place, One-Space Solution
Part V. The Emotionally Emplaced Body
15. Exile as “Place” for Empathy
16. Sprouts, Mountains, and Fields: Symbol and Sustainability in Mengzi’s Moral Psychology
17. The Place of the Body in the Phenomenology of Place: Edward Casey and Nishida Kitarō
18. Putting the Dead in Their Place
Contributors
Index
