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Overlapping Territories: Asian Voices on Culture and Civilization
Editor: Bambang Sugiharto and Roy Voragen
Date Of Publication: Aug 2011
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2999-1
Isbn: 1-4438-2999-4
The post-Cold War situation has given way to a new and unprecedented constellation of global interrelations. The power constellation today is not only multi-polar, but rather, ‘chaotic’: its configuration keeps shifting and it is determined not simply by new emerging super powers, but also by any seemingly small events in non-linear modes of interaction. The interdependency between communities somehow makes significant changes unpredictable. Such an interdependent, yet chaotic, world order, in turn, raises new philosophical questions. Identity, culture and civilization cannot be understood anymore simply in terms of traditional categories. These categories are called into question through mutual interrogation and mutual enlargement of horizons, and this inevitably entails hybridization and pluralization. The Asian voices included in this book speak of recognition of and respect for the ‘otherness’, the other outside as well as inside. The writers mostly see globalization as well as their own cultural positions through dialogical imagination in which a Western philosophical framework is deployed to find out their Asian positions, and the reverse, the Asian reality is used to problematize the Western framework. Thereby this book attempts to shed light on the question of how we are to understand culture and civilization.
Bambang Sugiharto is a professor at the Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, Indonesia. He is the author of several books on postmodernism, contemporary art, culture and religious issues.
Roy Voragen, from the Netherlands, is an independent writer based in Bandung since 2003. He writes on (Indonesian) politics, religion, culture and contemporary art.
Price Uk Gbp: 34.99
Price Us Usd: 52.99
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