Construction of ‘otherness’ is, according to Homi K. Bhaba, a very complicated process containing self-contradictions that disavow its difference from self-defense and yet mask the anxiety derived from the desire and fear ...

One of the most significant current discussions in Chinese philosophy is the problem of interpreting the notion of wú wéi. As one of the popular concepts of ancient Chinese thought, wú wéi was used and differently interpreted ...

The subject of unification is as vibrant as national movement even after 58 years of a fractured verdict. More than to achieve a physical conjugation it was an attempt for cultural fusion. The aspiration for linguistic ...

Global migration trends depend on two important considerations, namely, the wish of inhabitants of the developing countries to improve their standard of living by finding better conditions of life, and the demand for ...

In my paper I bring out two topics from the ancient Chinese political philosophy. (1) Non-action (wúwéi) that was required from the ruler in the Legalist and Huang-Lao tradition (e.g. Han Feizi, Huainanzi) and was incorporated ...

The proposed paper focuses on an approach to the selected works by Endō Shūsaku from the perspective of the hermeneutical category “distance-distanciation” as set forth by Paul Ricoeur. The analysis of this category enables, ...

The term kyōsei (共生), a concept of coexistence, has been widely applied to various disciplines from biology to business. Although it usually refers to the question of symbiosis between species, in contemporary Japanese ...

The article is devoted to the philosophy of the well-known ancient Chinese sage Confucius paying attention to the Western misunderstandings of it. The fundamental differences between Chinese and Western civilizations, the ...

This article is based on reassessment of the contemporary results of counterinsurgency and nation-building in Afghanistan. Nation-building initiatives have been started in the country since the Bonn agreement in December ...