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Project

The Local, The Global, and the Intellectual Universe of Izutsu Toshihiko: An inquiry into the question of how to understand other cultures
Code
01J02109
Duration
01 January 2009 → 31 October 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
  • Social sciences
    • General pedagogical and educational sciences
    • Communication sciences
Keywords
globalization critique of eurocentrism critique of western hegemony islam Toshihiko Izutsu intercultural philosophy critique of modernity
 
Project description

Toshihiko Izutsu was one of the world's leading experts in Islam studies in the 20th century, and, moreover, an outstanding philosopher and pioneer in comparative and intercultural philosophy. In Izutsu's work a methodological foundation for a philosophy of the practice of intercultural understanding is ideally inherent. To uncover this methodology would be the most important contribution of this project.