Social Theory and Asian Dialogues

<div>Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: An Introduction and an Invitation.-&nbsp;Part One: Theorizing as Dancing Transformations:&nbsp;Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and Beyond.-&nbsp;Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations.-&nbsp;Theorizing Alternative Futures of Asia:&nbsp;Activating Enabling Traditions.-&nbsp;Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South.-&nbsp;Beyond Ethnocentrism: Towards a Global Social Theory.-&nbsp;Part Two: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues:&nbsp;Creative Engagement and Transformative Learning.-&nbsp;Selfhood and Morality: East-Asian and Western Dimensions.-&nbsp;Iridescent Self in the Womb of the Wholly M(O)ther:&nbsp; A Vajrayani Meditation.-&nbsp;TheTaijitu, Western Dialectics, and Brain Hemisphere Function: A Dialogue facilitated by the Scholarship of Complex Integration.-&nbsp;A Middle Way of Emptying Dualism in Social Theory.-&nbsp;Indo-Chinese Knowledge and Wisdom:&nbsp;A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between Confucius and Tiruvalluvar.-&nbsp;Dancing East and West:&nbsp;Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.-&nbsp;The Micropolitics and Metaphysics of Mobility and Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Rahul Sankrityayan’s ‘GhumakkaṚ ŚĀatra’ and Gilles Deleuze / FÉlix Guattari’s ‘Nomadology’.-&nbsp;From Ecological Ontology to Social Ecology:&nbsp;John Dewey, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Interscalar Ethics.-&nbsp;Part Three: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues:&nbsp;Asia, Europe and the Call of Planetary Conversions.-&nbsp;Nature, Culture and the Debate With Modernity:&nbsp;Critical Social Theory in Japan.-&nbsp;The Self-Description of Society in East Asia:&nbsp;If It is Not Society, What Else Could it Be?.-&nbsp;An Intercultural Perspective on Chinese Aesthetics.-&nbsp;Making Sociology Universal:&nbsp;Revisiting the Contributions of Syed Hussein Alatas.-&nbsp;Political Intrusion in Social Science:&nbsp;The Elimination of Leftist Critical Thinking in Indonesia.-&nbsp;Social Welfare and Harmony in East Asia and the Nordic Region.-&nbsp;Critical Theory and Communicative Action:&nbsp;The Challenge of Legitimation in a World at Risk.-&nbsp;The Gift of the Grain: Beyond Biopolitics?.-&nbsp;Democracy and Meritocracy:&nbsp;A New Inter-Civilizational Challenge.- Afterword: Communication and the Consilience of Eastern&nbsp;and Western Ideas.</div>