CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE
SERIES IIID, SOUTHEAST ASIA, VOLUME 2
General Editor
George F. McLean
HERMENEUTICS FOR A GLOBAL AGE
Lectures in Shanghai and Hanoi
by
GEORGE F. McLEAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I. HERMENEUTICS FOR A GLOBAL AGE
Chapter I. Subjectivity and Self-Realization
The Emergence of Subjectivity
The Crisis of Objective Reason
Subjectivity: a New Agenda
Freedom as Existential Self-realization
Freedom
Empirical Freedom of Choice
Formal Freedom to Choose as One Ought
Existential Freedom as Self-constitution and Self-determination
Existential Self-realization
Chapter II. Hermeneutics and Cultural Identities
The Evolution of Modern Hermeneutics
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Wilhelm Dilthey
Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger
Cultural Identity, Tradition and Civilization
Values and Virtues
Cultural Traditions
Civilizations
Chapter III. Hermeneutics of Cultural Traditions
Hermeneutic Application of One’s Own Cultural Tradition
Dialectic of Whole and Part
Novelty
Application and Prudence: Ethics vs Techné
Hermeneutic Interpretation of Other Cultural Traditions
Dialectic of Horizons
Dialectic of Question and Answer
Chapter IV. Globalization and Hermeneutics
Global Thinking
Discursive Reasoning
Intellection
Global Structures: Diversity in Unity
The Unity of the Whole
Diversity as Contraction
Global Relations
Hierarchy
Internal Relations
Explicatio-Complicatio
Global Dynamism
Direction to the Perfection of the Global Whole
Dynamic Unfolding of the Global Whole
Cohesion and Complementarity in a Global Unity
Conclusion
PART II. LECTURES ON HERMENEUTICS FOR A GLOBAL AGE: Shanghai and Hanoi
Lecture I. Etymology and History of Hermeneutics
Lecture II. Cultures and Civilizations
Lecture III. Hermeneutics of Cultural Traditions
Lecture IV. Hermeneutics for a Global Age