Foreword by Michael Jung
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Origins of Transversality
1The Dao of Transversality as a Global Approach to Truth: A Metacommentary on Calvin O. Schrag
Chapter 1 Addendum: Review Essay on Calvin O. Schrag’s The Self after Postmodernity (1997)
2Transversality and Geophilosophy in the Age of Globalization
3The Task of Public Philosophy in the Transversal World of Politics
4Edward O. Wilson’s Theory of Consilience: A Hermeneutical Critique
Part II Two Elemental Preconditions of World Philosophy
5Transversality, Harmony, and Humanity between Heaven and Earth
6Phenomenology and Body Politics
Part III World Literature and World Philosophy
7Zhang Longxi’s Contribution to World Literature in the Globalizing World of
Multiculturalism
8Wang Yangming and the Way of World Philosophy
9Transversality and Fred Dallmayr’s Comparative Political Theory
10Edouard Glissant’s Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization
Part IV Heterotopia and Responsibility as First Ethics
11Reading Maurice Natanson Reading Alfred Schutz
12Responsibility as First Ethics: John Macmurray and Emmanuel Levinas
13Taking Responsibility Seriously
14Václav Havel’s New Statecraft of Responsible Politics
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