Cross-Cultural Existentialism

Leah Kalmanson's work exemplifies what is best about the new wave of cross-cultural philosophizing. Not content to merely compare ideas, she elegantly and insightfully weaves sources from Korea and China together with others from Europe and North America to challenge, enrich, and ultimately re-direct existentialism. * Stephen C. Angle, Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, USA * In Cross-Cultural Existentialism, Kalmanson takes her long-standing commitment to comparative or cross-cultural methodological interventions to the next level. Going beyond the framework of East-West comparison, Kalmanson creates a new qi-based vocabulary for meaning-making in the 21st century-a speculative existentialism centered in daily practice leading to radical transformation of our shared conditions. This is philosophy at its finest-creative, nuanced, accessible, and meaningful. * Sarah A. Mattice, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of North Florida, USA * This wonderful book lives up to the ambition of its title. Kalmanson does more than deftly weave together strands from Western existentialism and East-Asian transformative philosophies into an informative tapestry. She also draws on linguistic and practice-based resources in ancient Chinese philosophy to breathe new life into current existentialist thinking. * Graham Parkes, Professorial Research Fellow of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria *