Valuing Diversity

Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. He has published several books, including Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence and Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age, also published by SUNY Press.

• Introduction1. Toward a New Paradigm of Difference2. Variety and Diversity: Two Qualities and Directions of Difference3. Time Differences: The Changing Nature of Change4. Writing Histories, Making Differences5. The Commodification of Difference: Media and the Emerging Attention Economy6. Ethics and Differentiation: Turning Away from the Same7. Convergence on Variety: Modern Irony, Postmodern Ideal8. Delinking Equity and Equality9. Diversity and Equity: Global Relational Commons and Global Public Good10. Making a Difference: Toward a New Structure of FeelingEpilogue: The Next Step?NotesBibliography of Works CitedIndex

"…as a theoretical undertaking, the book is entirely successful. The arguments for change and the sorts of conceptualizations that are employed in these arguments are timely and well-presented, making this work an important contribution to the growing conversation about the need for a perspective that … responsibly deals with emerging issues and predicaments in our global and interdependent world. On the whole, this is a valuable book and an important step towards bridging the gap between academic arguments and contemporary predicaments." — Philosophy East & West"…Hershock has written an important book. The book impressively achieves its primary aim: to show why diversity poses one of the greatest challenges of our time, and to begin laying the philosophical/conceptual groundwork for a global future where diversity is indeed deeply valued." — Journal of Value Inquiry