Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought

By Gertrude Chandler Warner and Anthony VanArsdale

Book Overview

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 the Renaissance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415133769
• ISBN13: 9780415133760
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"