Einstein Meets Magritte

An Interdisciplinary Reflection on

By: Nicole Note (Editor), R. Fornet-Betancourt (Editor), J. Estermann (Editor)

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Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. The present book takes these issues implicitly as its starting point by thoroughly reflecting on them from a perspective of worldviews, as one of many approaches.

More specifically, it focuses on people's implicit and explicit interpretations and assumptions of the world, of themselves and of others. Often deeply rooted and hard to change, they have an important function, for without them we would continually need to question what we do and what we think. In their absolutist form, these assumptions may become a barrier for open-mindedness, and hence for deep intercultural understanding and exchange. We need to find a balance between both stances.

Intercultural philosophy tries to fulfil this role, on the one hand by comparing different cultures on a deep philosophical level, and as a way to better understand each other's core assumptions, and on the other hand by arguing for an intercultural philosophy grounded in specific cases. The contributions of this book conceive of "another possible world" which does not condemn cultural and religious diversity as a detonator for "Clashes of Civilizations", but rather welcomes it as a source of inspiration for all and of respect for the "different".

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Worldview and Cultures: philosophical reflections from an intercultural perspective
An introduction
Ways of the Intellect: Forms of Discourse and Rationalization Processes in the Arabic-Islamic Context
Comparative Philosophy: a methodological approach
A Methodological Framework for Cross-tradition Understanding and Constructive Engagement
Cosmopraxis and contextualizing among the contemporary Aymara
A Worldly View of Worldview Metaphysics
Andean philosophy as a questioning alterity: An intercultural criticism of Western andro- and ethnocentrism
Intercultural philosophy from a latin-american perspective
Hermeneutic philosophy and human experience: An intercultural perspective of worldviews and life world in the Mapuche culture
To an intercultural construction of rationality
Universalism and relativism of knowledge dissipate
The Intercultural Perspective
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