Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western ThoughtWhat is the place of Eastern thought - Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Confucianism - in the Western intellectual tradition? Oriental Enlightenment shows how, despite current talk of 'globalization', there is still a reluctance to accept that the West could have borrowed anything of significance from the East, and explores a critique of the 'orientalist' view that we must regard any study of the East through the lens of Western colonialism and domination. |
Contents
the issues | 3 |
some conjectures | 16 |
the age of Enlightenment | 37 |
the age of Romanticism | 54 |
the nineteenth century | 71 |
EastWest encounter in the twentieth century | 95 |
Philosophical encounters | 112 |
Religious dialogue | 130 |
Psychological interpretations | 149 |
Scientific and ecological speculations | 165 |
Reflections and reorientations | 181 |
Orientalism and postmodernity | 210 |
Other editions - View all
Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought J.J. Clarke Limited preview - 2002 |
Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought J.J. Clarke Limited preview - 2002 |
Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought John James Clarke Limited preview - 1997 |
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