Valuing Diversity : Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (340 pages)
Intro -- Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Toward a New Paradigm of Difference -- Chapter 2: Variety and Diversity: Two Qualities and Directions of Difference -- Chapter 3: Time Differences: The Changing Nature of Change -- Chapter 4: Writing Histories, Making Differences -- Chapter 5: The Commodification of Difference: Media and the Emerging Attention Economy -- Chapter 6: Ethics and Differentiation: Turning Away from the Same -- Chapter 7: Convergence on Variety: Modern Irony, Postmodern Ideal -- Chapter 8: Delinking Equity and Equality -- Chapter 9: Diversity and Equity: Global Relational Commons and Global Public Good -- Chapter 10: Making a Difference: Toward a New Structure of Feeling -- Epilogue: The Next Step? -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index.
Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.