The Art of Multiculturalism

Foreword: Chiara Bottici.- Preface; Bo Stråth.- The Western Global: Lands dof Difference - Lands of Building?.- Evolving the Time-Space Through the Hybridization of Art, Literature, Architecture, Transformation Design and Complexity Science.- A 400-Year Old Legacy: The Traditional Locality and Its Interrelation with Globalized ''Hybrid'' Frameworks.- Setting the Example for Imaginal Politics Through Art, Techniques and Procedures to Integrate Mukherjee's Indian Legacy with Western Post Modernity.- Mukherjee's 20th Century Source: Pop Art of the 1960s: A Similar Inspiration, 400 Years After the Moghuls.- Mukherjee and the Future of Multiculturalism as ''Imaginal Politics''.- Conclusion. 

Roland Benedikter, Dott. lett. (Cultures and Literatures), Dr. rer. pol. (Political Science), Dr. phil. (Political Sociology), Dr. phil. (Educational Science), born 1965, is Co-Head of the  Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of Eurac Research Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan, the research flagship of the trilingual Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, Northern Italy; Research Professor for Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the Willy Brandt Center of the University of Wroclaw-Breslau; Senior Research Scholar of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Washington D.C.; Trustee of the Toynbee Prize Foundation Boston; and Full Member of the Club of Rome. 2009-2013 he served as Research Affiliate at the Europe Center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; 2008-12 he was Full Academic Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Washington D.C; and 2008-2015 he was Research Scholar of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis - 2009-13 withthe function of European Foundation Research Professor of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies of the University of California, Santa Barbara. 1995-2003 he was active in European cultural and ethnic minority politics. He has published 20 books, 18 encyclopedia articles and more than 300 peer reviewed essays on the interface of politics, societies and cultures. 

Judith Hilber, Prof. Dott. lett. (American and English Literature and Culture), MA, born 1968, is a tenured College Professor of English at the Technological College (TFO Max Valier) Bolzano-Bozen-Bulsan, Italy. She studied English and American Language and Literature at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria), Exeter (UK) and at the University of California at Berkeley. She has authored essays on postmodernity and cultural diversity, including an essay on Jacques Derrida's concept of science and an article in the Open Journal of Philosophy (together with