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Fred Dallmayr - Critical Phenomenology, Cross-cultural Theory, Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)
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Fred Dallmayr - Critical Phenomenology, Cross-cultural Theory, Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovators in Political Theory
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Fred Dallmayr's work is innovative in its rethinking of some of the
central concepts of modern political philosophy, challenging the
hegemony of a modern "subjectivity" at the heart of Western
liberalism, individualism and rationalism, and articulating
alternative voices, claims and ideas. His writings productively
confound the logocentrism of Western modernity, while providing
alternative conceptions of political community that are
post-individualist, post-anthropocentric and relational. The editor
has focused on work in three key areas: Critical phenomenology and
the study of politicsThe first selections focus on the
philosophical roots of Dallmayr's work in two of the most
innovative intellectual trends of the twentieth century:
phenomenology and critical theory. These chapters outline some of
the main arguments advanced by practitioners of phenomenology,
particularly "existential phenomenology," as well the guiding ideas
of critical theory and critical Marxism, while tracing Dallmayr's
debt to thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Adorno and
Merleau-Ponty. Cross-cultural theoryThese readings illustrate
Dallmayr's explorations beyond the confines of Western culture, as
this phase of his thinking turns toward what is now called
cross-cultural or "comparative" political theory. In an approach
that maintains its linkage with critical phenomenology, Dallmayr
asserts that Western (or European-American) political theory can no
longer claim undisputed hegemony; rather it must allow itself to be
contested, amplified and corrected through a comparison with
non-Western theoretical traditions and initiatives.
CosmopolitanismThese selections explore the final phase of
Dallmayr's work, in which he applies his insights on cross-cultural
studies to the context of global politics, rebutting Samuel
Huntington's "clash of civilizations" thesis, and instead arguing
for a cosmopolitanism that takes a middle path between both global
universalism and restrictive particularism, advocating sustained
dialogue and respectful mutual learning between countries and
civilizations.
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