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Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: An Introduction and Invitation.- Part One: Theorizing as Dancing Transformations: Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and Beyond.- Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations.- Theorizing Alternative Futures of Asia: Activating Enabling Traditions.- Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South.- Beyond Ethnocentrism: Towards a Global Social Theory.- Part Two: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Creative Engagement and Transformative Learning.- Selfhood and Morality: East-Asian and Western Dimensions.- Iridescent Self in the Womb of the Wholly M(O)ther: A Vajrayani Meditation.- The Taijitu, Western Dialectics, and Brain Hemisphere Function: A Dialogue facilitated by the Scholarship of Complex Integration.- A Middle Way of Emptying Dualism in Social Theory.- Indo-Chinese Knowledge and Wisdom: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between Confucius and Tiruvalluvar.- Dancing East and West: Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.- The Micropolitics and Metaphysics of Mobility and Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Rahul Sankrityayan’s ‘Ghumakka? ??atra’ and Gilles Deleuze / FElix Guattari’s ‘Nomadology’.- From Ecological Ontology to Social Ecology: John Dewey, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Interscalar Ethics.- Part Three: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Asia, Europe and the Calling of Planetary Conversions.- Nature, Culture and the Debate With Modernity: Critical Social Theory in Japan.- The Self-Description of Society in East Asia: If It is Not Society, What Else Could it Be?.- An Intercultural Perspective on Chinese Aesthetics.- Making Sociology Universal: Examining the Contributions of Syed Hussein Alatas.- Political Intrusion in Social Science: The Elimination of Leftist Critical Thinking in Indonesia.- Social Welfare and Harmony in East Asia and the Nordic Region.- Critical Theory and Communicative Action: The Challenge of Legitimation in a World at Risk.- The Gift of the Grain: Beyond Biopolitics?.- Democracy and Meritocracy: A New Inter-Civilizational Challenge.