The keyword Series is based on a simple yet unique idea. It brigs together scholars from six regions of the world representing different disciplines, each of whom explores the meanings and nuances of certain universal concepts writing from their own socio-cultural specificities and historical settings. These books, therefore, present the diversity of cultural traditions in an era characterized by the homogenizing effects of globalization. The Series currently comprises five books dealing respectively with Truth, Gender, Identity, Experience and Nature. Each of these concepts is widely used in daily discourse but most of us are nuclear about their philosophical and cultural roots; and we are even more unaware of how these same key concepts are viewed in other societies. Designed, therefore, to foster an inter-cultural dialogue, these absorbing books present multiple understandings of concepts that are key to our understanding of the human condition. In short, they are required reading for all those who see themselves as informed citizens of the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chen Shao-Ming
Chen Shao-Ming is a Professor of Chinese Philosophy at Zhongshan University, Canton. Chen recently published The Interpreted Tradition in China.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo
Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo teaches sociology in Burkina Faso at Universite de Ouagadougou and Universite Laval. His most recent publications are Violence et Communautes en Afrique noire. (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1997) and Arts photographiques en Afrique. Technique et esthetique dans la photographie de studio au Burkina Faso (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2003).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leo Marx
Leo Marx is Senior Lecturer and William R. Kenan Professor of American Cultural History Emeritus inthe Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is the author of many books, including The Machine in teh Garden (1967), and The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Society in America (1988).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nader El-Bizri
Nader El-Bizri is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Research Associate in Philosophy at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. Of his scholarly writings, he has recently published The Phenomenological Quest Between Avicenna and Heidegger.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pierre Zaoui
Pierre Zaoui teaches philosophy at Universitie Paris X-Nanterre, and directs a program at the College International de Philosophie (Paris). He is the author of Hume (Editions les belles letters, 2005).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vinay Kumar Srivastava
Vinay Kumar Srivastava teaches social anthropology at the University of Delhi. He is the author of Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People and has edited Methodology and Fieldwork. He has carried out intensive fieldwork in western Rajasthan, and is presently working on a book on the economy of a seminomadic, pastora community.
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