Dialogue Among Civilizations: Some Exemplary Voices

Abstract

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 Ibn Rushd, Goethe and Hafiz to Soroush, Gadamer, and the Mahatma Gandhi. Part I: Toward a Dialogue Among Civilizations Dialogue Among Civilizations Conversations Across Boundaries The Ambivalence of Europe Globalization and Inequality Global Modernization Memory and Imagination Part II: Some Exemplary Voices Reason, Faith, and Politics West-Eastern Divan Islam and Democracy Rethinking Secularism Freedom East and West What is Self-Rule?