Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective: Power Relations in a Global World

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Foreword The Task of Intercultural Philosophy Our Volume Notes Bibliography Part I: Interculturality as the Basis for a Philosophy of Coexistence Chapter 1: Intercultural Philosophy as Philosophy for Better Human Conviviality 1.1 Introductory Remarks 1.2 For Better Human Co-Habitation: Considerations from the Perspective of Intercultural Philosophy 1.3 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: Responses to Past Injustice in Democratizing Societies and the Universalization of Human Rights 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Are Experiences of Injustice Paradigmatic for the Normative Justification of Human Rights? 2.3 The Universality and Transculturality of Human Rights 2.3.1 The Idea of a Human Rights Universalism 2.3.2 The Global Institutionalization of Human Rights 2.3.3 The Factual Status of Ratification 2.3.4 Transcultural Universality of Human Rights 2.3.4.1 Neutral Approaches to Justification 2.3.4.2 Different Approaches to Intercultural Justification 2.3.4.3 Transcultural Justification Approaches 2.4 The Concept of a Life of Dignity against the Backdrop of the Experience of Injustice 2.4.1 A Human Rights Approach 2.4.2 The Active-Democratic Approach 2.4.3 The Decolonial Approach 2.5 Conclusion: Toward a Transcultural Perspective Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude 3.1 Theoretical Background 3.2 Framing the Concept of Afropolitanism 3.2.1 Selasi and Afropolitanism 3.2.2 Mbembe and Afropolitanism 3.2.3 African Aesthetics and Sensibilities 3.2.4 Afropolitanism as the Expression of African Modernity 3.3 Negritude as a Discourse of African Identity 3.4 Convergencies and Divergencies 3.4.1 A Mutual Concern 3.4.2 Worldview 3.4.3 Epistemological Paradigms 3.5 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Part II: Human Being in Times of Displacement Chapter 4: The Value of Home in a Global World: On Migration and Depopulated Landscapes 4.1 Introduction or the Question of the Meaning of Home 4.2 What is Home ( Heimat)? 4.2.1 Conceptual Approximation via Loss or Evaluating Home via De-localization 4.2.1.1 Language as Home 4.2.1.2 Spirituality as a Home in Motion 4.2.1.3 Endangering the Home in Exile and in Return 4.2.2 Home (as Place and Un-Place) 4.2.2.1 Home as Place 4.2.2.2 “Home” as Un-place 4.2.2.3 Home as a New Place 4.3 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: A Genealogy of Displacement in the South African Land Question Part One: The Displacement Mechanism of Ideology and Its Critique Part Two: English Settlers Lose the Plot Part Three: Restoration of Title to Territory, Absolute Sovereignty, and Reparations Part Four: Invisible Land Notes Bibliography Part III: Being with Others: Applied Dimensions and Real-World Problems Chapter 6: The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims in Eastern Europe 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Why Public Deliberation? 6.3 Minority Claims and Cultural Differences 6.4 Minority Groups as Publics Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Cultural Impoverishment: The Hidden Dimension of Global Injustice 7.1 Introduction 7.2 What is Cultural Impoverishment? 7.3 Cultural Impoverishment: A Hidden Dynamic of Injustice 7.4 Cultural Impoverishment and Democratic Transition in Tunisia 7.4.1 As Regards Education 7.4.2 As Regards the Process of Modernization 7.5 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 8: “Detention and Torture Centers” in Latin American Dictatorships: Places of Subjective and Social Reconfiguration Notes Bibliography Part IV: Intercultural Approaches to Reconciliation Chapter 9: Confucian Remonstrance in the Dialectics of Self-Conscious Identity between the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong Introduction Historical Overview Conflict, the Other, and Self-Conscious Identity Conflict, the Other, and Self-Conscious Identity: Considering the PRC and Hong Kong Political Unrest in Confucianism Authoritarianism and Remonstrance in Confucianism Conclusion: Authoritarianism and Remonstrance in Hong Kong Notes Bibliography Chapter 10: Politics and Reconciliation: The Issue of Comfort Women in the Dynamics of Political Reconciliation between Japan and South Korea 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Political Reconciliation 10.3 The Beginning of the Issue of Comfort Women 10.4 South Korea 10.5 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: Political Reconciliation in Liberal States 11.1 Divides in Liberal Societies 11.2 The Agency-based Approach to Political Reconciliation 11.2.1 Reconciliation as Peacebuilding 11.2.2 Reconciliation as Forgiveness 11.2.3 Reconciliation as Political Inclusion 11.2.4 Narrative Reconciliation 11.2.5 The Agency-Based Account of Reconciliation 11.3 Principles of Political Reconciliation 11.4 Refuting Objections 11.4.1 Betrayal of Justice 11.4.2 False Harmonism 11.4.3 Perverted Direction of Fit 11.5 Outlook Notes Bibliography Afterword Notes Bibliography Index