Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern thinkers : a hermeneutics of cross-cultural understanding / Wei Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Wei, 1958-

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rorty, Richard.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Philosophy, Comparative.

East and West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wei Zhang joins the ongoing hermeneutic quest for understanding and appropriating the East-West encounter and cross-cultural engagement by exploring Martin Heidegger's and Richard Rorty's cross-cultural encounters with Eastern thinkers. Zhang begins by examining Rorty's correspondence with Indian philosopher Anindita N. Balslev, outlining their debate about the discipline of comparative philosophy and curriculum reform, as well as the nature or origin of philosophy itself. She then focuses on the dialogue between Heidegger and a Japanese professor concerning the nature of human language and discusses whether Heidegger's view of language allows for a true understanding between East and West or whether it admits only misunderstanding and prejudice are possible. Finally, the author presents a conceptual dialogue with Heidegger's primary text on hermeneutics and phenomenology, Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity. Utilizing the dialogues and correspondence between Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern thinkers as textual examples, Zhang deconstructs and recovers layers of misconceptions of the various interpretations of the East-West encounter.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

The Recurring East-West Hermeneutic Riddle

Introduction

Richard Rorty's Correspondence with a Comparative Philosopher

The Question of Legitimacy of Comparative Philosophy

Philosophy and Cultural Otherness

Martin Heidegger's Dialogue with a Japanese Visitor

On Theway to a "Common" Language

On Theway to a Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics

A Conceptual Dialogue with Heidegger's Text on Hermeneutics

Heidegger's Ontological Hermeneutics as Aworldview and World Encounter

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-123) and index.

ISBN:

9780791481806

0791481808

9781423766872

1423766873

OCLC:

66905668