Culture of the Difference in Eurasia: Azerbaijan—Past and Present in the Dialogue of Civilizations

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Latinity at the Quest for Difference in Eurasia
  Candido Mendes
• Azerbaijan in Modern World: Realities and Strategic Priorities
  Khalaf Khalafov

1 – The Latin Interlocution

• New Mediterraneans?
  François L’Yvonnet
• Latinity among Nations and Civilizations
  Alain Touraine

2 – Religion, Secularization, Modernization

• Europe’s Encounter with Islam: what Future?
  Nilüfer Göle
• Between Islam and Secularism: Religious Policies of Turkey in the Turkish Republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus
  Bayram Balci
• Azerbaijan at the Crossroads of Three Powers: Russia, Iran and Turkey
  Leila Alieva

3 – Post-Modernity and Critical Thought

• Reason and Faith in an Intercultural Context
  Sergio Paulo Rouanet
• Political Theology in the Post-Modern Age
  Susan Buck-Morss
• The Three Global Curtains. From Dependence Civilization to Contempt Civilization: Education Beyond Severance
  Cristovam Buarque
• The Anonymous Community
  Helen Petrovsky

4 – Transculturalism and Borderlands

• Trans-Cultural Tricksters in between Empires: Eurasian Islamic Borderlands in Modernity
  Madina Tlostanova
• The Caspian Sea and the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan Pipeline
  Cesario Melantonio Neto
• Dwelling in the Borders: Nations and Subaltern Cultures
  Walter D. Mignolo
• The Uncertain Oikoumene: Contested Borders and Imagined Civilizations
  Enrique Rodríguez Larreta

5 – Hegemony and Domination

• At Odds with Difference and Pluralism in Times of Hegemony
  Candido Mendes
• Europe for a Meta-Dialogue
  Bernard Bosredon
• The Goal of University through Globalization
  Gianni Vattimo
• Islam: Waiting for Post-Islamism
  Alain Roussillon

Appendix 1

• Idea of Azerbaijanism, Idea of Unitary Secular State System, Moral Values of Religions
  Rafig Aliyev
• Azerbaijan at the Crossroads of Civilizations
  Mubariz Qurbanli
• Globalization in Estimation of Muslim Scientists
  Vasim M. Mamedaliyev

Appendix 2

• Foi et droit: statut de la lettre et fonction du récit dans l’élaboration de la norme
  Jean-Michel Blanquer

Appendix 3

• Les exilés du dialogue
  Jean Baudrillard