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

288 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... Read more
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Clarke, J.J.

'an invaluable and illuminating book'

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