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Foreword I. The Crisis of Technological Civilization and Asian Response II. Ecological Crisis and Asian Philosophy III. Ecological Rationality and Asian Philosophy IV. Ecological Crisis and Asian Ecological Culture V. What a 21st Century East-Asian Leader Should Prepare for VI. The Asia and Pacific Countries at the Crossroad of the 21st Century VII. Problems of Modern Civilization and Asian Thought VIII. Is Intercivilizational Dialogue Possible? IX. Does the Human Species Owe Moral Obligation toward Other Species? X. The Concept of Art at the End of ¡°After the End of Art¡± XI. The Function of Literature in Our Global Village! XII. The Social Responsibility or Poetic Obligation XIII. Craft as a New Cultural Archetype XIV. The Poetics of Language XV. The Self-Deconstructive Process of Art as a Form of Reconstruction of the World XVI.The Transfiguration of the World into Artwork