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This volumes deals with the presentations and debates from the guest lecture series on the occasion of the "European Year of Intercultural Dialogue" 2008 at the Göttingen University. Weltweite Globalisierungsprozesse und die Zunahme an gesellschaftlicher, religiöser, und weltwirtschaftlicher Komplexität haben die Begriffe „Interkulturalität“ und „Dialog“ nicht nur in der politischen Praxis, sondern auch in zahlreichen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen vehement an Bedeutung gewinnen lassen. Gleichwohl ist unübersehbar, dass „Interkulturalität“ bislang nur vage theoretisch fundiert ist, jedoch als Bezugspunkt für einen sich neu entwickelnden Verstehens- und Interaktionszusammenhang immer wieder in Erscheinung tritt. Genau in diese „Leerstelle“ sucht die hier dokumentierte Vorlesungsreihe zu treten, um sich aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher, in vielerlei Hinsicht am akademischen Diskurs aktiv beteiligter Fächer mit einem „Interkulturellen Dialog“ auseinanderzusetzen. In ihrer Zusammenschau plädieren die hier versammelten Perspektiven für ein vernetztes Verstehen, das Grenzen zwischen Disziplinen, Kulturen, Religionen sowie Nationen hinter sich lässt. In den Beiträgen zeichnet sich eine Prozesshaftigkeit ab, die ausgehend von einer Hermeneutik des Fremden auf die Überwindung von Fremdheit zielt, um sich dann auf die Anerkennung der Differenz und Vielfalt von Kulturen hin zu bewegen.

Cultural pluralism --- Intercultural communication --- Multiculturalism --- Globalization --- Social aspects --- Europe --- Ethnic relations. --- intercultural dialogue --- guest lecture --- Islam --- Volksrepublik China

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China and Islam examines the intersection of two critical issues of the contemporary world: Islamic revival and an assertive China, questioning the assumption that Islamic law is incompatible with state law. It finds that both Hui and the Party-State invoke, interpret, and make arguments based on Islamic law, a minjian (unofficial) law in China, to pursue their respective visions of 'the good'. Based on fieldwork in Linxia, 'China's Little Mecca', this study follows Hui clerics, youthful translators on the 'New Silk Road', female educators who reform traditional madrasas, and Party cadres as they reconcile Islamic and socialist laws in the course of the everyday. The first study of Islamic law in China and one of the first ethnographic accounts of law in postsocialist China, China and Islam unsettles unidimensional perceptions of extremist Islam and authoritarian China through Hui minjian practices of law.

S02/0310 --- S13A/0500 --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Religion--Islam (religious aspects only) --- Islamic law --- Law --- Droit --- Droit islamique

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Comparative civilization. --- Political culture --- Civilisation comparée --- Culture politique --- S02/0310 --- S12/0820 --- S06/0260 --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- China: Politics and government--The Chinese model

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"Portraits of Confucius presents a major collection of Western perspectives on Confucius and Confucianism, stretching from the Jesuit missions of the 16th-century to the dawn of modern cross-cultural scholarship in the early 20th-century. With selections from over 100 figures covering the 1580s to the 1950s, this two-volume work features writing from American and European sources including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Bertrand Russell. Arranged chronologically, they represent methodologies that span philosophy, political science, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, economic theory, linguistics, missionary texts, and works of popular moralism. Together they reveal important ideological trends in Western attitudes toward China-with Confucius becoming positioned at different times as anti-Christian or nearly Christ-like, while Confucianism is interpreted as something positive the West needs to adopt or as something negative that must be opposed. For scholars and students interested in the life, work and teachings of Confucius and the West's reception of Chinese philosophy, this is an indispensable reference resource"--

Confucianism. --- Philosophy, Confucian. --- Confucius. --- Confucianism --- Philosophy, Confucian --- Religions --- Konfuzius --- Kung tzu --- Kong zi --- Kongzi --- Confucian philosophy --- Philosophy, Chinese --- S02/0310 --- S12/0400 --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Kongzi 孔子 Confucius and Confucianism

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Y a-t-il des valeurs universelles ? Où situer le commun entre les hommes ? Comment concevoir le dialogue entre les cultures ? Pour y répondre, il nous faut suivre l'avènement du politique à partir du commun ; en même temps que remonter dans l'histoire composite de notre notion d'universel : à travers l'invention du concept, la citoyenneté romaine ou la neutralisation de tous les clivages dans le salut chrétien. Mais il conviendra également d'interroger les autres cultures : la quête de l'universel n'est-elle pas la préoccupation singulière de la seule Europe ? Il est temps, en effet, de sortir à la fois de l'universalisme facile et du relativisme paresseux : notamment, de requalifier, mais par leur versant négatif, un absolu des droits de l'homme ; de repenser le dialogue des cultures en termes non d'identité et de différence, mais d'écart et de fécondité en même temps que sur le plan commun de l'intelligible ; d'envisager ainsi ces cultures comme autant de ressources à explorer, mais que l'uniformisation du monde aujourd'hui menace. Car seul ce pluriel des cultures permettra de substituer au mythe arrêté de l'Homme le déploiement infini de l'humain, tel qu'il se promeut et se réfléchit entre elles

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- General ethics --- Rationalism --- Intercultural communication --- Rationalisme --- Communication interculturelle --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Philosophy --- BPB0911 --- S02/0310 --- S12/0820 --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- Universals (Logic) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Logic --- Scholasticism --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Philosophy and civilization --- Multiculturalisme --- Civilization - Philosophy --- Différence (philosophie) --- Philosophie politique --- Relativisme culturel --- Universalisme (philosophie)