Hershock Valuing Diversity

Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4460-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hershock, Peter D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Toward a New Paradigm of Difference

2. Variety and Diversity: Two Qualities and Directions of Difference

3. Time Differences: The Changing Nature of Change

4. Writing Histories, Making Differences

5. The Commodification of Difference: Media and the Emerging Attention Economy

6. Ethics and Differentiation: Turning Away from the Same

7. Convergence on Variety: Modern Irony, Postmodern Ideal

8. Delinking Equity and Equality

9. Diversity and Equity: Global Relational Commons and Global Public Good

10. Making a Difference: Toward a New Structure of Feeling

Epilogue: The Next Step?

Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. He has published several books, including Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence and Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age, also published by SUNY Press.