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The Dialectics of Diversity: From Eastern Europa to J. F. Cooper by VERGIL NEMOIANU is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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We cannot turn, let me say it from the beginning, our perception of the separation between races and cultures into a dogma. To be sure, there are enough real differences, but there are also large areas of commonality, which turn words such as "mankind" and "human nature" into reasonably operative tools, epistemologically weak, but by no means weaker than others that we use all the time without compunction, such as "power," "gender," "society," "compassion," "environment," "peace," or others. Among the commonalities that shrink cultural distances and tend to encourage a more positive view of a universal humanity are, in my view, the religious-ethical dimensions of human functioning, the fact that (and the way in which) "modernization" created suffering and resentment among very different kinds of cultures, as well as similarities in the dynamics of mediation in otherwise quite different societies and cultures. I chose the novels of J. R Cooper as an early example and embodiment of wrestling with the issue of multiculturalism and diversity. Many parallels can be thought of, among these (on the American continent) the dilemmas of the Afro-American intellectual community when faced wit
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- Author
- VERGIL NEMOIANU
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)