Review of Hwa Yol Jung: Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy: Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, 2011, 400 pp. + index

[...]as intrinsically a social phenomenon, the body as esh exhibits the posture and dynamics of intercorpeality. [...]courses in comparative philosophyas well as sister courses in comparative religion and comparative literaturewere instated as a requirement for a broad world-encompassing education. [...]two informing features merged in the structure and design of comparative studies programsa logocentric cast of mind with its envisionment of universal truths across the spectrum of philosophical, religious, and literary achievements coupled with territorial claims for their origins in Western modes of thought. [...]views on the inferiority of Eastern cultures as compared with the superior achievements of modern Western culture became commonplace. [...]it was the West that supplied the criteria for sorting out the positive and negative inuences of the Oriental as it related to the Occidental.