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UNINA9910451201403321 |
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Autore |
Clarke J. J (John James), <1937, > |
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Titolo |
Oriental enlightenment : the encounter between Asian and Western thought / / J.J. Clarke |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-78474-0 |
0-203-00438-8 |
1-280-18228-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy, Asian |
Civilization, Oriental |
East and West |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-260) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Orientations: the issues; Orientalism: some conjectures; China cult: the age of Enlightenment; Passage to India: the age of Romanticism; Buddhist passions: the nineteenth century; East; West encounter in the twentieth century; Philosophical encounters; Religious dialogue; Psychological interpretations; Scientific and ecological speculations; Reflections and reorientations; Orientalism and postmodernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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