The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

SECTION:

Hermeneutic and Non-Hermeneutic Accesses to Cultures

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Papers to:
Email: Anil Bhatti (New Delhi) / Jeroen Dewulf (Porto)

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ABSTRACT: It is generally accepted that the chances of people getting along with one another increase the more people understand the viewpoints of others. This situation is said to be particularly true for complex, multicultural, multi-religious social units (for example, states). If one understands others/the other, or more precisely, if one makes an effort to understand the other, the capacity for tolerance is supposed to grow. Is this thesis valid? Has the history of colonialism not provided us with examples to the contrary?

Can one argue that a non-hermeneutic access to the other can carry just as much weight in the process of understanding? The thesis in this case would be that it is more important to get along with one another than to understand one another. Where is the limitation of this thesis?

How do these positions stand in relation to the problem of peace and tolerance? What forms of practice can be derived from this position for the functioning of multicultural societies? What implications do these positions have for questions about the construction of identity, state constitutions, migration, etc?

Historical case studies on intercultural conflict/reconciliation as well as theoretical, interdisciplinary, cultural-scientific representations of this theme (from various fields such as literature, sociology, history and social practice, etc) are invited for presentation and discussion in this section.

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SECTIONS

• Andrea Albrecht (Göttingen): Politik der Differenz oder Politik des Universalismus? Fragen nach der europäischen Integrität  [ABSTRACT]
• Motti Benari (Tel Aviv University): Text, Intertextuality and Culture  [ABSTRACT]
• Jeroen Dewulf (Porto): Kreolisierung als Verständigungsprinzip  [ABSTRACT]
• Mounir Fendri (Tunis): Das Modernisierungsprojekt des tunesischen Diplomaten Khair-eddin unter dem Aspekt des Okzident-Orient-Kulturtransfers im 19. Jahrhundert  [ABSTRACT]
• Bernd Fischer (Ohio State University): Hermeneutik im transkulturellen Gewand?  [ABSTRACT]
• Andrea Komlosy (Wien): Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen: Funktionsvoraussetzung des globalen Kapitalismus oder Ausdruck von Widerständigkeit?  [ABSTRACT]
• Franson Manjali (Paris-New Delhi): Ontology, Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Nietzsche  [ABSTRACT]
• Ulrich Müller (Salzburg): Interkulturelle germanistische Studien an der Universität Salzburg
• Alexander Svetlov (Berlin): Aussiedler Identity in Germany  [ABSTRACT]
• Horst Turk (Goettingen): Performanzen. Geteilte Geschichten am Beispiel von Uwe Timms Morenga

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