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Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought

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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 ...

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Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought 1997, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415133760

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Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought 1997, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415133753

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