Review article

Anthropology and the Issue of ‘Other Philosophy’

Borislav Mikulić orcid.org/0000-0002-6230-0397 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The article gives a detailed review and commentary on the main topics in the book Philosophy and Zhexue. The Way To the Other and Back by Wu Xiaoming (in Croatian translation with several appendices by editors) and a discussion about the very notion of the so-called ‘other’, non-European philosophy, its systematic place between history of philosophy, cultural anthropology and post-colonial discourse theory. The effort by Xiaoming to revolutionize, by means of Derridean différance and Chinese dao, the hierarchical pattern in the relation between the interpreting (Western) and the interpreted (Chinese) intellectual heritage has been estimated as genuinelly philosophical and different from cultural anthropological approaches, which is even contrary to late Derrida’s denial of Chinese philosophy. Parallel to the discussion in the main text, the article provides a survey with commentaries of recent cross-disciplinary publications, both Western and Chinese, in related issues such as comparativism in philosophy, in human and exact sciences, including Chinese authors.

Keywords

Chinese philosophy; eurocentrism; comparativism; deconstruction; cultural studies; anthropology

Hrčak ID:

84054

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/84054

Publication date:

24.4.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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