The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference

Intercivilizational Engagement

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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A study of inter-civilisational hermeneutics drawing on diverse classical and modern sources to construct a new hermeneutical theory for a postcolonial age.In response to the religious and spiritual transition experienced in our modern world, Chung creates a postcolonial framework for inter-religious exchange, focussing on issues of interpretation, moral deliberation and ethical praxis. He investigates the relationship between hermeneutical theory and ethics and produces a new theory for intercivilizational dialogue, studying theological-philosophical theory of interpretation, ethics, the experience of cultural hybridity and inter-civilisational alliance, set within multiple horizons and diverse contexts.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-07-26
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieJames Clarke
Antal sidor290
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9780227173817

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AcknowledgementsForeword by John BerthrongPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Hermeneutical Theory and Human Experience1. Interpretation and Experience2. Interpretation and Life Connection3. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics4. Understanding and Linguistic ExistencePart II: Intercivilizational Encounters: Interpretation and Ethical Subject5. Mediation: The Hermeneutical Self and Moral Self6. Interpretation and Ethics of Virtue: Aristotle Revisited7. Intercivilizational Encounters: The Mean in Confucian Ethics8. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Virtue Ethics and Analogy9. A Comparative Religious Study of Aquinas and MengziPart III: Aftermath of Modernity: Discourse Reason and Ethics of the Other10. Interpretation in Long Route and Social Location11. Discourse Ethics and Communicative Rationality12. Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Neo-Kantian Framework13. Aesthetics of Existence and Ethics of AlterityPart IV: Intercivilizational Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Colonialism14. Intercivilizational Reconstruction and Global-Critical Inquiry15. Engaging the Cave and the Butterfly: Dialectics of Enlightenment and Neo-Confucian Self16. Interpretation as Conflict and Creativity: Retrieval of Wang Yangming17. Concluding Reflection: The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical DifferenceEpilogue: Interpretive Reason and Postcolonial IrregularityBibliographyIndex

Chung's book is an important contribution to interreligious solidarity towards compassionate justice within the context of imperial capitalism creating a dangerous crisis for human life and earth. He creatively awakens the wisdom of Confucianism and Daoism in postcolonial perspective in order to reread history from below, giving the victims of western civilization a voice and designing a new epistemology transcending the dominating reductionist rationalism. This is liberation theology at its best.