[Ebook pdf] Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought
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| #1763416 in Books | J J Clarke | 1997-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.64 x6.14l,.90 | File Name: 0415133769 | 288 pages | Oriental Enlightenment The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought
||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| So much more nuanced than Edward Said|By Ralph Blumenau|This book is principally an examination and explanation of how the West has seen the philosophies, religions and cultures of the Far East - chiefly of China and India. To this interest in the East Clarke gives the name Orientalism. That word since 1985 has carried the connotation that Edward Said gave to it in his bo|From Library Journal|Clarke (history of ideas, Kingston Univ., UK) notes that for hundreds of years the West has sought out the tradition of the East's philosophies. The search has been one-sided, however; the East generally has not reached out to the West for
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. Or...
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