1st Edition

Oriental Enlightenment The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought

By J.J. Clarke Copyright 1997
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    What 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.
    Oriental Enlightenment provides a lucid introduction to the fascination Eastern thought has exerted on Western minds since the Renaissance.

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    Biography

    Clarke, J.J.

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