Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. The Recurring East-West Hermeneutic Riddle
5. Introduction 3
6. Richard Rorty's Correspondence with a Comparative Philosopher
7. The Question of Legitimacy of Comparative Philosophy 11
8. Philosophy and Cultural Otherness 27
9. Martin Heidegger's Dialogue with a Japanese Visitor
10. On Theway to a "Common" Language 47
11. On Theway to a Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics 67
12. A Conceptual Dialogue with Heidegger's Text on Hermeneutics
13. Heidegger's Ontological Hermeneutics as Aworldview and World Encounter 89
14. Notes 109
15. Bibliography 121
16. Index 125