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Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Oriental & Indian philosophy
This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly
annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of
cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled
"A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and
Linghun" ("Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien
Xin, Lim hoen"), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit
missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and
profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian
philosophy. The book restores the focus on Longobardo's own
intellectual concerns, while also reproducing and analyzing all the
Chinese-language annotations on the previously unpublished
Portuguese and Latin manuscripts. Moreover, it meticulously
modernizes all romanizations with standard Hanyu pinyin and
identifies, on the basis of archival research, most of Longobardo's
Chinese interlocutors, thus providing new insights into how the
Jesuits networked with Chinese scholars in the late Ming. In this
way, it opens up this seminal text to Sinologists and global
historians exploring Europe's first intellectual exchanges with
China. In addition, the book presents four introductory essays,
written by the editors and two prominent scholars on the Jesuit
China mission. These essays comprehensively reconstruct the
historical and intellectual context of Longobardo's report,
stressing that it cannot be viewed purely as a product of
Sino-European cultural exchange, but also as an outgrowth of both
exegetic debates within Europe and of European experiences across
Asia, especially in Japan. Hence this critical edition will greatly
contribute to a more globalized view of the Jesuit China mission.
This work offers a new perspective on the work of Confucius, the
great reference of classical Chinese thought. In general,
relatively little work has been done on Confucius' linguistic
concerns, which nevertheless did have an impact in his time and
afterwards. The author starts from a sociolinguistic approach,
based mainly on the ethnography of communication, to analyze the
role played by language in Confucius' texts and its links with the
ethical program proposed therein. It is, therefore, a considerably
novel perspective which, moreover, allows us to cover a very
relevant number of interests. The pages of this work concern
sociolinguists, but also historians of linguistics, philosophers,
and cultural scientists in general. In short, it provides a
different vision of one of the great cultural references of
humanity.
This handbook brings together a distinguished team of scholars from
philosophy, theology, and religious studies to provide the first
in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of
thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy.
Emphasizing the historical development of Vedantic thought, it
includes chapters on numerous classical Vedantic philosophies as
well as the modern Vedantic views of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri
Aurobindo, and Romain Rolland. The volume offers careful
hermeneutic analyses of how Vedantic texts have been interpreted,
and it addresses key issues and debates in Vedanta, including
religious diversity, the nature of God, and the possibility of
embodied liberation. Venturing into cross-philosophical and
cross-cultural territory, it also brings Vedanta into dialogue with
Saiva Nondualism as well as contemporary Western analytic
philosophy. Highlighting current scholarly controversies and
charting new paths of inquiry, this is an indispensable research
guide for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of
Vedanta and Indian philosophy.
This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese
philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its
founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime
(1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945).
Focusing on their contributions to thinking about place, space, and
dialectics, this concise introduction brings these influential
thinkers to life by connecting their work to issues still debated
in the philosophy of science and physics today. Beginning with an
overview of the reception of quantum physics and relativity theory
in Japan and concluding with an account of the direct relevance of
the Kyoto School to the development of world philosophy in a
posthuman age, each clearly-written chapter engages historical
contexts and includes: * Carefully-chosen excerpts and original
translations of Nishida, Tanabe, and Tosaka * Focus boxes
explaining complex concepts and problems of contextualization * A
timeline, glossary and index * Further reading lists featuring
relevant and significant articles and books in English This
introduction is an ideal starting point for students and lecturers
looking to become better acquainted with three central Japanese
philosophers and learn why their work impacts our current thinking
about science.
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