Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter

by Fred R. Dallmayr

Book Overview

Beyond Orientalism explores the confluence of contemporary Western (especially Continental) philosophy, with its focus on otherness and difference, and the ongoing process of globalization or the emergence of the "global village." The basic question raised in the book is: What will be the prevailing life-form or discourse of the global village? Will it be the discourse of Western science, industry, and metaphysics which, under the banner of modernization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791430693
• ISBN13: 9780791430699
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 277 Pages