Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is
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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Conversations of Place in Intercultural Philosophy
1. Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the Zhuangzi
2. Between Local and Global: The Place of Comparative Philosophy through Heidegger and Daoism
3. About the Taking Place of Intercultural Philosophy as Polylogue
4. Place and Horizon
5. The Proximate and the Distant: Place and Response-Ability
Part II. The Critical Interplay of Place and Personal Identity
6. Where Is My Mind? On the Emplacement of Self by Others
7. Accommodation, Location, and Context: Conceptualization of Place in Indian Traditions of Thought
Part III. Personhood and Environmental Emplacement
8. Public Reason and Ecological Truth
9. The Wisdom of Place: Lithuanian Philosophical Philotopy of Arvydas Šliogeris and Its Relevance to Global Environmental Challenges
10. Landscape as Scripture: Dōgen’s Concept of Meaningful Nature
Part IV. Shared Places of Politics and Religion
11. Public Places and Privileged Spaces: Perspectives on the Public Sphere and the Sphere of Privilege in China and the West
12. Seeking a Place for Earthly Universality in Modern Japan: Suzuki Daisetz, Chikazumi Jōkan, and Miyazawa Kenji
13. Transforming Sacred Space into Shared Place: Reinterpreting Gandhi on Temple Entry
14. Israel and Palestine: A Two-Place, One-Space Solution
Part V. The Emotionally Emplaced Body
15. Exile as “Place” for Empathy
16. Sprouts, Mountains, and Fields: Symbol and Sustainability in Mengzi’s Moral Psychology
17. The Place of the Body in the Phenomenology of Place: Edward Casey and Nishida Kitarō
18. Putting the Dead in Their Place
Contributors
Index