Dialogue among Civilizations : Some Exemplary Voices

Dialogue Among Civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of "civilizational dialogue" by asking questions like these: 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.

Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He recently published Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).