Social theory and Asian dialogues : cultivating planetary conversations /: cultivating planetary conversations. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri.
• Editors: Giri, Ananta Kumar
• Contents: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: An Introduction and an InvitationPart One: Theorizing as Dancing Transformations: Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and BeyondSocial Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary ConversationsTheorizing Alternative Futures of Asia: Activating Enabling TraditionsCritical Theory after the Rise of the Global SouthBeyond Ethnocentrism: Towards a Global Social TheoryPart Two: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Creative Engagement and Transformative LearningSelfhood and Morality: East-Asian and Western DimensionsIridescent Self in the Womb of the Wholly M(O)ther: A Vajrayani MeditationThe Taijitu, Western Dialectics, and Brain Hemisphere Function: A Dialogue facilitated by the Scholarship of Complex IntegrationA Middle Way of Emptying Dualism in Social TheoryIndo-Chinese Knowledge and Wisdom: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between Confucius and TiruvalluvarDancing East and West: Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan SarkarThe Micropolitics and Metaphysics of Mobility and Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Rahul Sankrityayan's 'GhumakkaṚ ŚĀatra' and Gilles Deleuze / FÉlix Guattari's 'Nomadology'From Ecological Ontology to Social Ecology: John Dewey, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Interscalar EthicsPart Three: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Asia, Europe and the Call of Planetary ConversionsNature, Culture and the Debate With Modernity: Critical Social Theory in JapanThe Self-Description of Society in East Asia: If It is Not Society, What Else Could it Be?An Intercultural Perspective on Chinese AestheticsMaking Sociology Universal: Revisiting the Contributions of Syed Hussein AlatasPolitical Intrusion in Social Science: The Elimination of Leftist Critical Thinking in IndonesiaSocial Welfare and Harmony in East Asia and the Nordic RegionCritical Theory and Communicative Action: The Challenge of Legitimation in a World at RiskThe Gift of the Grain: Beyond Biopolitics?Democracy and Meritocracy: A New Inter-Civilizational ChallengeAfterword: Communication and the Consilience of Eastern and Western Ideas.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 306.095; Social sciences -- Philosophy; East Asia -- Social conditions -- 21st century; India -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811070952
• Related ISBNs: 9789811070945
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