Scholars ofthe humanities and social sciences in both the West and the Rest have long criticized the location of non-Western material as objects to be examined according to the unidirectional epistemological framework...Scholars ofthe humanities and social sciences in both the West and the Rest have long criticized the location of non-Western material as objects to be examined according to the unidirectional epistemological framework that is Western in conception,orientation,and organization,yet to date there has been little real progress in finding feasible answers to the ambitious questions of how non-Western traditions can produce generally applicable social theory and how Western and non-Western social experiences can carry equal authoritative generality.展开更多
文摘Scholars ofthe humanities and social sciences in both the West and the Rest have long criticized the location of non-Western material as objects to be examined according to the unidirectional epistemological framework that is Western in conception,orientation,and organization,yet to date there has been little real progress in finding feasible answers to the ambitious questions of how non-Western traditions can produce generally applicable social theory and how Western and non-Western social experiences can carry equal authoritative generality.