Issue 2 of 'polylog - Forum for Intercultural Philosophizing' is now online:

http://www.polylog.org

'polylog' is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum for philosophical dialogue across cultures, with a bi-annual text section and a constantly updated service section. It appears in English, Spanish, and German. 'polylog' focuses on examples and methods of intercultural philosophy as well as methodological reflection on comparative philosophy, problems of inter- and multi-cultural phenomena, inter-religious questions, and philosophical work that explicitly considers its own cultural context.

About the content of issue 2:

Focal theme: Kwasi Wiredu's ethics of consensus. An African model

Niels Weidtmann:
Der gemeinsame Weg der Kulturen zu größerer Wahrheit. Eine Einführung in das Denken von Kwasi Wiredu

Kwasi Wiredu:
Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics. A Plea for a Non-party Polity

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze:
Democracy or Consensus? Response to Wiredu

Olusegun Oladipo:
Tradition and the Quest for Democracy in Africa

Gail M. Presbey:
Akan-Chiefs und Königsmütter im heutigen Ghana. Beispiele für Demokratie und verantwortliche Autoritäten?

Anke Graneß:
Der Konsensbegriff. Ein Vergleich der Bedeutung des Konsensbegriffs in Wiredus Konsensethik und der Diskursethik von Karl-Otto Apel und Jürgen Habermas

Dieter Senghaas:
Konsensethik und Konsensdemokratie à la africaine. Einige Überlegungen zur aktuellen Debatte

Luis Villoro:
Sobre democracia consensual. En torno a ideas de Kwasi Wiredu

Kazou Sato:
Chat and Consensus in the Japanese Traditional Meeting

Chantal Mouffe:
Wittgenstein, Political Theory and Democracy

Mario Magallón Anaya:
Consideraciones historiográficas sobre una historia de las ideas en América Latina

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez:
Fallstricke des Feminismus. Das Denken "kritischer Differenzen" ohne geopolitische Kontextualisierung

Kai Kresse in dialogue with Kwasi Wiredu:
Language matters! Decolonization, multilingualism, and African languages in the making of African philosophy

Rick Lewis in dialogue with Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze:
African Philosophy at the Turn of the Millennium

Kai Kresse:
Zur afrikanischen Philosophiedebatte. Ein Einstieg

Heidi Armbruster:
Feminist Theories and Anthropology

You will also find reviews, bibliographical information, reports of conferences, and presentations of intercultural projects in this issue.

A discussion forum provides the possibilty of raising questions and leading discussions on topics relevant to intercultural philosophy:
http://www.polylog.org/for/index-en.htm

Current event announcements relevant to an interculturally oriented philosophy can be found in a calendar:
http://www.polylog.org/agd/cal.htm

Many links contain additional information on the field of intercultural philosophy:
http://www.polylog.org/serv/index-en.htm

Themes in focus of the upcoming issues:

No. 3 (June 2001):
Justice in Intercultural Perspective

No. 4 (December 2001)
Sources of knowledge in philosophy. On the relation between philosophy and religion

Suggestions, critique, and, of course, contributions are most welcome. For more information for authors and of possibilities for collaboration see:
http://www.polylog.org/prof/index-en.htm

Sincerly yours,

Bertold Bernreuter
and the polylog-team