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Ausgabe:

September/2018

Spalte:

940–942

Kategorie:

Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Elberfeld, Rolf

Titel/Untertitel:

Philosophieren in einer globalisierten Welt. Wege zu einer transformativen Phänomenologie.

Verlag:

Freiburg i. Br. u. a.: Verlag Karl Alber 2017. 488 S. Kart. EUR 24,00. ISBN 978-3-495-48907-9.

Rezensent:

Joseph S. O’Leary

Globalization now enjoys near-coercive authority as the politically correct horizon to which all academic disciplines must bend. The journal Philosophy East and West and the Congresses of World Philosophy held every five years embody the new vision of philosophy resulting from this. Rolf Elberfeld offers a voluminous plaidoyer for this development, with some elements of special pleading.
In a sweeping encyclopaedic survey (13–127) he urges that phi-losophy has often thrived amid vibrant cultural interchange, citing the Asian origins of Greek thought, the reception of Greece in Buddhist, Roman, and Islamic milieux, the Chinese reception of Buddhism, and the modern European exposure to Chinese and Indian sources. Throughout the book the reader is overwhelmed by historical ...


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