This volume gathers essays by fourteen scholars written to honor
Fred Dallmayr and the contributions of his political theory.
Stephen F. Schneck's introduction to Dallmayr's thinking provides a
survey of the development of his work. Dallmayr's "letting be,"
claims Schneck, is much akin to his reading of Martin Heidegger's
"letting Being be," and should be construed neither as a
conservative acceptance of self-identity nor as a nonengaged
indifference to difference. Instead, he explains, endeavoring to
privilege neither identity nor difference, the hermeneutic circle
for Dallmayr must also be one of thoroughgoing critique and praxis.
And, indeed, what joins together Dallmayr's many essays and
explorations, what inheres within his "cosmopolitan" understanding
of the contemporary world, and what lends his analyses their
imperative, is this same "letting be." The diversity of
contributors to this volume--including Michaelle Browers, John
Francis Burke, Neve Gordon, David Ingram, Hwa Yol Jung, Thomas
McCarthy, Chantal Mouffe, Morton Schoolman, Calvin O. Schrag, Tracy
B. Strong, Ronald J. Terchek, Franke Wilmer, and Krzysztof
Ziarek--illustrate the broad range of Dallmayr's own theory. His
thinking has engaged ideas of Jurgen Habermas and Martin Heidegger,
Michel Foucault and Charles Taylor, Jacques Derrida and Abdolkarim
Soroush--not to mention those of phenomenology, language
philosophy, critical theory, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and a
rich collection of non-Western thinkers, both classical and
contemporary. Indeed, in the last decade Dallmayr's work have
expanded to develop the emerging field of comparative political
thought, as his theoretical focus weaves across the old
historicaland geographical borders of thought, crossing North and
South, East and West, ancient and modern. The scholars in this
volume are among the first to address the full scope of Dallmayr's
contributions to contemporary thought, from his theoretical
assessment of Western modernity to his cosmopolitical vision.
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