Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: An Introduction and an 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 ‘GhumakkaṚ ŚĀatra’ and Gilles Deleuze / FÉlix 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 Call 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: Revisiting 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 -- Afterword: Communication and the Consilience of Eastern and Western Ideas.