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Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Ma, Lin; van Brakel, Jaap is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) about?

This innovative book explores the preconditions necessary for intercultural and comparative philosophy. Philosophical practices that involve at least two different traditions with no common heritage and whose languages have very different grammatical structure, such as Indo-Germanic languages and classical Chinese, are a particular focus. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel look at the necessary and not-so-necessary conditions of possibility of interpretation, comparison, and other forms of interaction and how we can speak of similarities and differences in this context. The authors posit that it is necessary to dissolve the question of universalism versus relativism by replacing the ideal language paradigm with a paradigm of family resemblances and that it is not necessary to share a common language to engage in comparison. Numerous case studies are presented, including many comparisons of Western and Chinese concepts.

Who reads Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)?

Author

Ma, Lin; van Brakel, Jaap

Publisher

State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438460161

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities