Article Title：From East to West -: Emergent global philosophies -: Beginnings of the end of western dominance?
Abstract：
Globalization as a coming-together of humanity requires an open-ended dialogue about philosophical and religious fundamentals. Have the Western philosophers who have turned to the East worked out any useful conceptual resources? I assess Roy Bhaskar's Eastern turn in the light of earlier attempts by Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida and Johan Galtung. Nietzsche suggested an interestingly ambiguous global identity, but remained trapped within the positivist problematic. Among Derrida's contributions are karma as radical inter-connectedness and 'democracy-to-come', which recognizes the aporia of global being. However, limits are set by his tendentially disempowering meta-theory and preoccupation with an abstract notion of violence. Galtung has actually studied Eastern systems and, in some respects, goes beyond Derrida with his conceptions of positive peace and global democracy, but also lacks realist causal analysis, which has tended to detach his blueprints from reality and made them excessively normative. Although Bhaskar has failed to take on board many of these lessons, he has also moved the discussion a small step forward by proposing novel conceptions of dialectical logic and theology. Moreover, critical realist emancipation is needed to tackle the political economy underpinnings of a genuine, post-colonial global dialogue.
Keywords: Buddhism; critical realism; globalization; philosophy; post-colonial; religion
DOI: 10.1177/026327602401081549
Source：THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
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