Fred Dallmayr

On the Boundary (eBook, ePUB)

A Life Remembered

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book records the author's personal and intellectual maturation over a period of nine decades. This maturation was never purely self-propelled, but always occurred in response to teachings and experiences. Situated as a "being-in-the-world", the author's experiences reach from World War II via the Cold War to recent "terror wars." Intellectually, he participated in and reacted to a number of major perspectives: from phenomenology, existentialism, and critical theory to hermeneutics, postmodernism, and post-secularism. Exchanges with multiples interlocutors helped to shape his distinctive outlook or profile; which privileges self-other contacts over the ego, dialogue over monologue, and dialogical cosmopolitanism over chauvinistic power politics. Implicit in this emerging profile is a preference for potentiality over actuality and of relationality over static identity. Shunning doctrinal formulas or finished "systems", the author's life thus is shown to be simply a journey, an adventure to what comes, an itinerary (mentis in Deum).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761869573
• Artikelnr.: 49040543

Autorenporträt

Fred Dallmayr is professor emeritus of University of Notre Dame and is member of the board of the Dialogue of Civilizations-Research Institute in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
On The Boundary: A Life Remembered
Appendix A: "Sehnsuch Dorthin": A Response to Friends
Appendix B: Reason and Dialogue: My Road to Intercultural Studies
Appendix C: Interview: Joseph Camilleri with Fred Dallmayr
Index
About the Author