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The predominance and global expansion of homogenizing modes of production, consumption and information risks alienating non-Western and Western people alike from the intellectual and moral resources embedded in their own distinctive cultural traditions. In reaction to the erosion of traditional cultures and civilizations, we seem to be witnessing the re-emergence of a tendency to re-ethnicize the mind through renewed and more or less systematic cultural revivals worldwide (e.g., hinduization, ivoirization, sinofication, islamicization, indigenization, etc.). How do and should philosophers understand and assess the significance and impact of this phenomenon? Authors acquainted with the contemporary situation in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-America, and Europe try to answer this question. In the final analysis, the authors of this original and groundbreaking collection of essays plead for a full critical engagement with ones own particularity while at the same time rejecting any form of cultural, national or regional chauvinism. They consider various ways in which local and global conceptions as well as practices can and already do judiciously inform and positively fertilize

Author

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Jürgen Hengelbrock

Publisher

Brill

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004501447

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Religion