This book is a compilation of all papers that were presented at the IV. International Congress on InterculturalPhilosophy, held in Bangalore, India, September 16 through 20, 2001. The Topic of this Congress was: "The Interaction and Asymmetry between Cultures in the Context of Globalization". Participants from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America tried to illustrate as the Editor says in his Introduction that "only by creating conditions of social justice and equality at the world level, can be guarantee a free interaction in which the cultures, without the fearof being colonized, can accept and promote from within a mutual transformation&"

From the table of contents:

Walter Fernandes: Globalisation and the ethics of a single culture;Srinivasa Rao: The philosophical perspectives of cultural asymmetry and the challenges of Globalization;Ursula Klesing-Rempel: Power Relations, Gender Construct and Interculturality;Enrique Dussel: Globalization and the victims of exclusion: from a liberation ethics perspective;Dina V. Picotti: Dialogue and power in the Latin American culture: the intercultural challenge;Raphael O. Madu: African Culture and other Cultures in the Face of Globalization;Gerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann: The balance of power in the dialogue between African and Western philosophy;Leela D'Souza: The Challenges of Globalization and the Emergence of Fundamental Movements.

Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Hrsg.)

Iko Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation
ISBN 3-88939-653-4

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