Oriental enlightenment : the encounter between Asian and Western thought / / J.J. Clarke

• Autore: Clarke J. J (John James), <1937, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 950/.07/01821
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Asian; Civilization, Oriental; East and West
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Oriental enlightenment
• ISBN: 1-134-78474-0; 0-203-00438-8; 1-280-18228-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451201403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II