Despite this indubitable East-West merger, the narrative of their ingrained differences was upheld by prominent thinkers of the century. In The Question of Being, Martin Heidegger prophesied that planetary building was going to determine encounters for which the participants were by no means equal; he could not envisage a possible conversation between European and East-Asian languages .
The issue seems to have been of much concern, as three such attempted encounters between western philosophers and Japanese conversationalists are said to have been more or less failures. Our reading of their reported versions is meant to prove the opposite, that the asserted incompatibility is contradicted by what Derrida calls inter-dicta: meanings rising in-between what is actually said.
Author(s) Details:
Professor Dr. Habil. Maria-Ana Tupan,
Alba Iulia University, Romania.
