The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking

The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781438427423
ISBN-13 : 1438427425
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Download or read book The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking written by Steven Burik and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do differences in language influence comparative philosophy? Although the Orientalism famously described by Edward Said is rare today, Steven Burik maintains that comparative philosophy often subtly privileges one tradition over another since certain conceptual schemes are so embedded in Western languages that it is difficult not to revert to them. Arguing for a new approach that acknowledges how theory and practice cannot be separated in comparative philosophical endeavors, Burik provides nonmetaphysical, deconstructionist readings of Heidegger and Derrida and uses these to give a new reading of classical Daoism. The ideas of language advanced therein can aid the project of comparative philosophy specifically, and philosophies generally, in trying to overcome ways of thinking that have dominated Western philosophy for twenty-five hundred years and still frustrate intercultural encounters.


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