MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | ’COMPARISON’ AS A MODE OF INQUIRY IN THE POST-COMPARATIVE WORLD

Beyond Comparative Philosophy

MAY 2 @ 6 P.M. | Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center

"Comparative philosophy," along with terms for various national or regional philosophical traditions ("Chinese philosophy," "Asian philosophy," and so on), have emerged as tools to resist the hegemony of the strands of the Euro-American philosophical tradition that currently dominate philosophical discourse around the world. This lecture sketches how we have arrived at the present moment, explores the strengths but also the weaknesses of comparative philosophy, and points toward a future beyond comparative philosophy.