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The scholars in this volume are among the first to address the full scope of Dallmayr’s contributions to contemporary thought, from his theoretical assessment of Western modernity to his cosmopolitical…
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Fred Dallmayr
In In Search of the Good Life, renowned philosopher Fred Dallmayr traces the development of this notion, illuminating the connections between Greek philosophy, Judeo-Christian tradition, Eastern religions, and postindustrial social…
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Internationally acclaimed scholar Fred Dallmayr charts a course beyond these persistent but curable dichotomies in Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars. Dallmayr critically compares integral pluralism against the theories of Carl…
In Being in the World, noted political theorist Fred Dallmayr explores the globe’s transition from the traditional Westphalian system of states to today’s interlocking cosmopolitan network.
Drawing on new scholarship and his work with the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations, a global, nongovernmental organization of distinguished thinkers, Dallmayr challenges dominant worldviews and heralds new possibilities…
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Drawing on the works of James, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Merleau-Ponty, Integral Pluralism offers sophisticated and carefully researched solutions for the conflicts of the modern world.
In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era.
This book discusses how the traditional democratic institutions seem to be falling apart or operate in mutual contradiction in the U.S. Guiding values no longer serve the common good but…
Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity offers a philosophical analysis of the issues surrounding cultural diversity and dialogical relationships among cultures as an alternative to culture wars and…
At the height of the recent turmoil in American life, a former mayor of New York announced that partisan domestic politics needs to be conducted like warfare. In the mayor’s…
Fred Dallmayr explores the benefits of mindfulness in respect to philosophy and theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism. Students of continental, social, and political philosophy…
This book follows Chagall’s life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.
The book is a protest against some geopolitical agendas which are pushing the world toward a major global war, and possibly toward a nuclear apocalypse. As an antidote, the book…
Includes a presentation of an ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.
A presentation of an ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.
Dallmayr (government, U. of Notre Dame) studies those border zones where paradigms intersect and issues of order and disorder, meaning and non-meaning must be renegotiated. Paper edition ($17.95) not seen…
Explores some steps toward non-assimilative encounters in the global village.
In an age marked by global hegemony and festering civilization clashes, this text charts a path toward a cosmopolitan democracy respectful of local differences. The main emphasis of the study…
This book is a protest against some geopolitical agendas that are pushing the world toward a major global war and possibly toward a nuclear apocalypse. As an antidote, Fred Dallmayr…
Globalization can be seen as a process of universal standardization under the auspices of market economics, technology and hegemonic power. Resisting this process without endorsing parochial self-enclosure, Dallmayr seeks alternative…
Small Wonder presents the dangers of the ‘underside of modernity’: the unleashing of unlimited lust for (global) power and wealth. Relying on leading critical intellectuals, Dallmayr offers a critique of…
The life story of a German-American scholar deeply involved, over several decades, in evolving intellectual trends and movements and profoundly affected by successive geopolitical events and calamities.
In his latest book, Horizons of Difference: Engaging with Others, Fred Dallmayr argues that the dialogue between religious and secular commitments, between faith and reason, is particularly important in our…
Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the underside of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and…
Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and…
16th-century humanist Erasmus allows Peace to speak as a plaintiff, protesting her shabby treatment at the hands of humankind and our ever-ready inclination to launch wars. Against this lure of…
Dallmayr turns to spiritual guides like Pope Francis, Paul Tillich, and Thomas Merton to escape Nietzsche’s growing desert of consumerism and greed in modern culture.
Auf dem Hoehepunkt der jungsten Turbulenzen im amerikanischen Leben verkundete ein ehemaliger Burgermeister von New York, dass die parteiische Innenpolitik wie ein Krieg gefuhrt werden musse. Nach Ansicht des Burgermeisters…
Au plus fort de la recente tourmente americaine, un ancien maire de New York a annonce que la politique interieure partisane devait etre menee comme une guerre. Selon le maire…
Al culmine del recente tumulto nella vita americana, un ex sindaco di New York ha annunciato che la politica interna partigiana deve essere condotta come una guerra. Nella visione del…
W szczytowym momencie ostatnich zawirowan w zyciu Ameryki byly burmistrz Nowego Jorku oglosil, ze partyzancka polityka wewnetrzna musi byc prowadzona jak dzialania wojenne. Zdaniem burmistrza, dzisiejszy konflikt partyzancki nie jest…
No auge da recente turbulencia na vida americana, um ex-prefeito de Nova York anunciou que a politica interna partidaria precisa ser conduzida como uma guerra. Na opiniao do prefeito, o…
Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain, the 1996 Hesburgh Lecturer on Ethics and Public Policy, challenges a powerful strand in western political thinking that separates the political and ethical realms. This is manifest…
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Compiling the key works of Fred Dallmayr, this book highlights the most important themes explored by this prolific theorist: critical phenomenology; cross-cultural theory (or comparative political theory); and cosmopolitanism. Framed…
In Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives, Fred Dallmayr and Zhao Tingyang bring together leading Chinese intellectuals to debate the main political ideas shaping the rapidly changing nation.
Fred R. Dallmayr
Critical Encounters, a study of contemporary philosophy and political and social theory, inserts itself into ongoing conversation at the junctures of philosophy and political thought, and modernity and post-modernism. Through…
This revised edition interprets Hegel’s ‘postmodern’ as the dissemination of the liberating spirit in the capillaries of democratic lifeworlds.
