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THIS PAPER ARGUES THAT IN POLICY EVALUATION A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE "PRACTICAL DISCOURSE" IS A VALUABLE REMEDY AGAINST THE TECHNICAL-INSTRUMENTAL BENT OF APPLIED SCIENCE, BUT THAT RECOVERY OF A FULLY NON-INSTRUMENTAL "PRACTICAL" JUDGEMENT PRESUPPOSES AN EVALUATION NOT ONLY OF CONCRETE POLICIES BUT OF THE STATUS OF "POLICY" ITSELF.

Foreword : civilizational revival in the global age / Ahmet Davutoğlu -- Geopolitical turmoil and civilizational pluralism / Richard Falk -- Civilization as instrument of world order? : the role of the civilizational paradigm in the absence of a balance of power / Hans Köchler -- Power in the analysis of world orders / Raymond Duvall and Çiğdem Çıdam -- International society, cultural diversity and the clash (or dialogue) of civilizations / Chris Brown -- The formative parameters of civilizations : a theoretical and historical framework / Ahmet Davutoğlu -- Western democrats, oriental despots? / S. Sayyid -- The Ottoman Empire and the global Muslim identity in the formation of Eurocentric world order, 1815-1919 / Cemil Aydın -- Beyond the "enlightenment mentality" : an anthropocosmic perspective / Tu Weiming -- Globalization, civilizations, and world order / Robert Gilpin -- Liberalism of restraint and liberalism of imposition : liberal values and world order in the new millennium / Georg Sørensen -- The rise of a neo-medieval order in Europe / Jan Zielonka -- Illusions, dreams and nightmares : Japan, the United States and the East Asian renaissance in the first decade of the new century / John Welfield

It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood. Usually, globalization is equated with the expansion of economic and financial markets and the proliferation of global networks of communication. In truth, much more is at stake: Traditional concepts of individual and national identity as well as perceived relationships between the self and others are undergoing profound change. Every town has become a potential cosmopolis -- an international city -- affecting the way that people conceptualize the relationship between public order and political practice. 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 upon sacred scriptures as well as the work of ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle and more recent scholars such as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Raimon Panikkar, this book delves into what Dallmayr calls "being in the world," seen as an aspect of ethical-political engagement. Rather than lamenting current problems, he suggests addressing them through civic education and cosmopolitan citizenship. Dallmayr advocates a politics of the common good, which requires the cultivation of public ethics, open dialogue, and civic responsibility.

Philosophy after Hiroshima offers a philosophical analysis of the issues surrounding war and peace, and their challenges to ethics. It reminds us that the threat posed to civilization by nuclear weapons persists, as does the need for continuing philosophical reflection on the nature of war, the problem of violence, and the need for a workable ethics in the nuclear age.The book recalls the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the beginning of the nuclear age, the Cold War, and subsequently of the hegemonic unilateralism of the sole superpower. Reviewing early critical responses to the first atomic bombings by such figures as Camus, Sartre, Russell, Heidegger, Jaspers and others, the authors themselves respond to contemporary threats to peace, including the US "global war on terrorism," the recrudescence of militarism, and the continuation of imperial power politics by other means. In the nuclear age, the use of military force as a political instrument threatens the future of humanity. This poses formidable challenges to philosophy and calls for its transformation.In using memories of the atomic bombings to help us to grasp the moral implications of the current escalation of global violence, the authors hope to show the urgent relevance of nonviolence in the contemporary context. Drawing on a range of philosophical traditions--Taoist and Western--the contributors take up a welter of philosophical and political concerns of topical interest, including human rights, toleration, the politics of memory, intercultural dialogue, the ethics of co-responsibility, and the possibility of a cosmopolitan order of law and peace. Going beyond postmodernism and deconstruction, several of the authors develop a post-critical, constructive paradigm of thinking--a philosophy of the possible and a new methodology for the realization of the creative potential of

Intro -- The Promise of Democracy -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction:The Promise of Democracy -- 2. Hegel For Our Time: Negativity and Democratic Ethos -- 3. Democratic Action and Experience: Dewey's "Holistic" Pragmatism -- 4. Agency and Letting-Be: Heidegger on Primordial Praxis -- 5. Action in the Public Realm: Arendt Between Past and Future -- 6.Postmodernism and Radical Democracy: Laclau and Mouffeon "Hegemony" -- 7. Jacques Derrida's Legacy: Democracy to Come -- 8. Who Are We Now?For an "Other" Humanism -- 9. Religion, Politics, and Islam: Toward Multiple Modes of Democracy -- 10. Beyond Minimal Democracy: Voices from East and West -- Appendix A. Democracy Without Banisters: Reading Claude Lefort -- Appendix B. The Return of the Political: On Chantal Mouffe -- Appendix C. Exiting Liberal Democracy?Bell and Confucian Thought -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Dialogue Among Civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of 'civilizational dialogue' by asking questions such as: What is the meaning of such dialogue? What are its preconditions? Are there different trajectories for different civilizations? Is there also a dialogue between past and future involving remembrance? Exemplary voices range from Ibn Rushd, Goethe and Hafiz to Soroush, Gadamer, and the Mahatma Gandhi

AbstractThe past two decades have produced a bulky literature on religion and politics, with many writers being influenced by Habermas's notion of 'post-secularity'. However, despite the vast amount of literature, there is still little agreement on the meaning of this term. The article explores two main directions in which the expression has been interpreted: one direction where religious faith is in a way 'secularised' by being adapted to modern secular discourse; and another where faith triumphs over secularity by expunging its modern corollaries. What surfaces behind this divergence is a version of the immanence/transcendence conundrum which accentuates a presumed contrast of language games in which one linguistic idiom is said to be more readily accessible than the other. In agreement with Charles Taylor, this article challenges the assumption of an 'epistemic break' between secular reason and 'non-rational' religious discourse. Once this challenge is taken seriously, a new and more radical redefinition of 'post-secularity' comes into view: a definition where the prefix 'post' signifies neither a secular nor a religious triumphalism, but rather an ethical-political task: the task of liberating public life from its attachment to 'worldly' self- interest and the unmitigated pursuit of wealth, power, and military adventures.