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  • Horizons of Difference
    Fred Dallmayr
    In his latest book, Horizons of Difference: Engaging with Others, Fred Dallmayr argues that the dialogue between religious and secular commitments, between faith and reason, is particularly important in our time because both faith and reason can give rise to dangerous and destructive types of extremism, fanaticism, or idolatry. In this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural synth...
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    49,94 €

  • Marc Chagall
    Fred Dallmayr
    This book follows Chagall’s life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. ...
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    58,49 €

  • On the Boundary
    Fred Dallmayr
    The life story of a German-American scholar deeply involved, over several decades, in evolving intellectual trends and movements and profoundly affected by successive geopolitical events and calamities. ...
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    45,01 €

  • Mindfulness and Letting Be
    Fred Dallmayr
    Fred Dallmayr explores the benefits of mindfulness in respect to philosophy and theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism. Students of continental, social, and political philosophy will benefit from Dallmayr’s engagement with, among others, Heidegger, Panikkar, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida. ...
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    71,17 €

  • Comparative Political Theory
    Fred Dallmayr
    This book is a textbook designed for teaching a new subfield in political science: the emerging field of 'comparative political theory'. It is the first such textbook. As taught in American universities, political theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel and Nietzsche. The editor believes strongly tha...
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    133,93 €

  • Civilizational Dialogue and Political Thought
    Fred Dallmayr
    Civilizational Dialogue and Political Thought collects the ideas of Islamic and Western scholars who believe that the need is strong for a peaceful global agenda of ’dialogue among civilizations,’ as has been proposed by Mohammed Khatami, former president of Iran. ...
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    74,94 €

  • Small Wonder
    Fred Dallmayr / Fred RDallmayr
    Small Wonder presents the dangers of the ’underside of modernity’: the unleashing of unlimited lust for (global) power and wealth. Relying on leading critical intellectuals, Dallmayr offers a critique of the self-deceptions of our age, pleading in favor of the cultivation of the ’small wonder’ of everyday life. ...
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    62,65 €

  • Peace Talks-Who Will Listen?
    Fred Dallmayr
    In his Complaint of Peace, the great sixteenth-century humanist Erasmus allows 'Peace' to talk. Peace speaks as a plaintiff, protesting her shabby treatment at the hands of humankind and our ever-ready inclination to launch wars. Against this lure of warfare, Erasmus pits the higher task of peace-building, which can only succeed through the cultivation of justice and respect fo...
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    42,50 €

  • Dialogue Among Civilizations
    Fred Dallmayr
    Dialogue Among Civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of 'civilizational dialogue' by asking questions like these: 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...
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    66,27 €

  • Alternative Visions
    Fred Dallmayr
    Globalization is often seen as a process of universal standardization under the auspices of market economics, technology, and hegemonic power. Resisting this process without endorsing parochial self-enclosure, Fred Dallmayr explores alternative visions that are rooted in distinct vernacular traditions and facilitate cross-cultural learning in an open-ended global arena. ...
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    69,30 €

  • Beyond Orientalism
    Fred Dallmayr
    Explores some steps toward non-assimilative encounters in the 'global village.'Beyond Orientalism explores the confluence of contemporary Western (especially Continental) philosophy, with its focus on otherness and difference, and the ongoing process of globalization or the emergence of the 'global village.' The basic question raised in the book is: What will be the prevailing ...
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    47,09 €

  • Critical Encounters
    Fred R. Dallmayr
    Critical Encounters, a study of contemporary philosophy and political and social theory, inserts itself into ongoing conversation at the junctures of philosophy and political thought, and modernity and post-modernism. Through dialogue and critique Fred R. Dallmayr seeks to find a viable path for political theory in the midst of contemporary discussions in philosophy and the soc...
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    42,39 €