Para-deconstruction: Preliminary Considerations for a Phenomenology of Interculturality

Abstract

This chapter presents some preliminary discussions on the conditions of possibility of intercultural understanding in philosophy from the phenomenological approach. It begins by explaining the double epoché a philosopher of Chinese origin must enact in order to initiate intercultural communication with readers trained in the tradition of Western philosophy. Critical analyses of the Eurocentric nature of Husserl’s idea of philosophy as pure thêoria will be followed by appropriation of works of Derrida, Lévi-Strauss and Merleau-Ponty in view of securing a guiding method for exercising intercultural understanding in philosophy.