ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on theses such the end of history and the clash of civilizations as indicative of an oblivion of hybrid and plural origins of the West and thus also as indicative of a mistaken identification of the West with world-history. It explores a hasty review of the aforementioned theses showing their commonality in reasserting the West as world-history. The world witnessed renewed attempts at achieving western global hegemony that was gone with colonialism. The chapter links the increasing visibility of cultural diversity in an attempt at criticizing immanentist operative assumptions that are at the heart of theses like the end of civilization or the clash of civilization. It suggests a theory for the politics of irrefutable cultural diversity and agonistic pluralism, which represents the politics of transcendence. The chapter explains the ramification of the proposed theory for recognition of difference and for intercultural and intercivilizational dialogue.
