Dialogue Among Civilizations

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 1-13

3. Toward a Dialogue Among Civilizations

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Dialogue Among Civilizations

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 17-30

   3. Conversation Across Boundaries

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 31-47

   4. The Ambivalence of Europe

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 49-65

   5. Globalization and Inequality

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 67-84

   6. Global Modernization

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 85-104

   7. Memory and Social Imagination

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 105-118

4. Some Exemplary Voices

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Reason, Faith, and Politics

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 121-146

   3. West-Eastern Divan

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 147-165

   4. Islam And Democracy

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 167-184

   5. Rethinking Secularism—with Raimon Panikkar

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 185-200

   6. Freedom East And West

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 201-211

   7. What Is Self-Rule?

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 213-228

5. Back Matter

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Dialogue Among Civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of 'civilizational dialogue' by asking questions such as: What is the meaning of such dialogue? What are its preconditions? Are there different trajectories for different civilizations? Is there also a dialogue between past and future involving remembrance? Exemplary voices range from Ibn Rushd, Goethe and Hafiz to Soroush, Gadamer, and the Mahatma Gandhi.

• democracy
• Europe
• globalization
• international relations
• liberty
• philosophy
• political science
• political theory
• Political Thought
• politics
• religion
• society
• religion and society

FRED DALLMAYR, is a political theorist specializing in modern and contemporary European thought. He recently published Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). He has been the recipient of NEH and Fulbright fellowships, and has been a visiting professor at the New School and the University of Hamburg. In addition to his many articles, he has authored 12 books, including Critical Encounters (Notre Dame), and Between Freiburg and Frankfurt: Toward a Critical Ontology (Massachusetts).

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