Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy

Hwa Yol Jung was professor emeritus at Moravian College.

“Hwa Yol Jung charts incisively how transversality, as an ethics, philosophy, and way of being, moves creatively in-between the binary ‘anarchy of differences’ versus ‘totalitarianism of identity’ that paralyzes contemporary political praxis. Whether it be discussing sincerity, harmony, alterity, or the ethics of responsibility, Jung’s scholarly reflections, with a Sinic accent, embodies the Dao of transversal phenomenology – a dialogic engagement with the other so desperately needed in a time of polarization.”

• Foreword by Michael JungAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Origins of Transversality1The Dao of Transversality as a Global Approach to Truth: A Metacommentary on Calvin O. SchragChapter 1 Addendum: Review Essay on Calvin O. Schrag’s The Self after Postmodernity (1997)2Transversality and Geophilosophy in the Age of Globalization3The Task of Public Philosophy in the Transversal World of Politics4Edward O. Wilson’s Theory of Consilience: A Hermeneutical CritiquePart II Two Elemental Preconditions of World Philosophy5Transversality, Harmony, and Humanity between Heaven and Earth6Phenomenology and Body PoliticsPart III World Literature and World Philosophy7Zhang Longxi’s Contribution to World Literature in the Globalizing World ofMulticulturalism8Wang Yangming and the Way of World Philosophy9Transversality and Fred Dallmayr’s Comparative Political Theory10Edouard Glissant’s Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and CreolizationPart IV Heterotopia and Responsibility as F