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Tolerance or Hospitality for Other Cultures? : Homeland as a Realistic Limit of Intercultural Encounter

  • Multi-cultural Society and Education Studies
  • 2022, 11(), pp.127-151
  • DOI : 10.22957/mses.11..202207.127
  • Publisher : Institute for multicultural studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 31, 2022
  • Accepted : July 4, 2022
  • Published : July 30, 2022

Yong-Shik Shin 1

1부산장신대학교

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ABSTRACT

Education in Multicultural Society requires recognition and acceptance of other cultures in cultural diversity. However, this study attempted to clarify that the realistic boundary in intercultural encounters is dialectical self-understanding. It is clear that recognizing and accepting other cultures is a posture that is essential in a multicultural society, but to what extent should other cultures be recognied and accepted? To find realistic answers to this problem, this study examined Martin Heidegger’s and Hans-Georg Gadamer's ideas, esp. “Heimat(losigkeit)”, “Horizontverschmelzung(= Fusion of Horizon)” etc.What this study attempted to emphasize is that encounter with other cultures enables not only a new understanding of other cultures but also of their own cultures. Therefore, education in multicultural society may be understood as a kind of intercultural interpretation. Recalling the discussion between Heidegger and Gadamer discussed above, the limitation of intercultural interpretation lies in the horizon of the homeland(Heimat). Through Heidegger’s discussion, we looked at the loss of homeland as a sign of existential loss of meaning of life. And Gadamer’s idea, “Fusion of Horizon” shows that the self and the other function as basis for expanding their respective horizons between each other. What Heidegger and Gadamer insisted commonly that the fundamental foundation of understanding lies in self-understanding. Education in multicultural society pursues a dialectical process of a new understanding of own culture.

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