How is global dialogue possible? : foundational reseach on value conflicts and perspectives for global policy /

Intercultural dialogue is often invoked in vague reference to a method that can build cross-cultural understanding and facilitate global policy-making. This book clarifies the theoretical foundations of intercultural dialogue and demonstrates the practical significance of intercultural value inquiry...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Garsdal, Jesper; Seibt, Johanna
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Process thought; 24
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110340785
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Summary: Intercultural dialogue is often invoked in vague reference to a method that can build cross-cultural understanding and facilitate global policy-making. This book clarifies the theoretical foundations of intercultural dialogue and demonstrates the practical significance of intercultural value inquiry, combining the perspectives of philosophy, conflict research, religious studies, and education.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxvi, 574 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110340785
Index Number: HM1211
CLC: C912.1
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Notes on contributors --
General Introduction --
Introduction to Part I --
CHAPTER ONE. The Dialogue of Civilizations a brief review /
CHAPTER TWO. Is planetary civilization conceivable? /
CHAPTER THREE. Intercultural thought, Bildung, and the onto- dialogical perspective /
CHAPTER FOUR. Dialogue and epistemological humility /
CHAPTER FIVE. Intercultural dialogue and the processing of significance: cognition as orientation /
Introduction --
CHAPTER SIX. Attachments and the moral psychology of value conflicts /
CHAPTER SEVEN. Doing conflict research through a multimethod lens /
CHAPTER EIGHT. How cultural contestation frames escalation and mitigation in ethnic conflict /
CHAPTER NINE. Causing conflicts to continue /
CHAPTER TEN. The human quest for peace, rights, and justice /
CHAPTER ELEVEN. The philosophy and politics of dialogue /
CHAPTER TWELVE. Dialogue community as a promising path to global justice /
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. How to make a world /
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Struggle for democracy and pluralism in the Islamic world /
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Religion and ideology /
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Does the claim of absoluteness lead into interreligious conflicts? /
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Certainty and diversity: a systematic approach to interreligious learning /
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Back to the Future: Buber, Levinas and the original encounter /
CHAPTER NINETEEN. Following two courses at the same time on Chinese religious pluralism /
CHAPTER TWENTY. Conflict