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Culture And Self - Philosophical And Religious Perspectives, East And West (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Culture And Self - Philosophical And Religious Perspectives, East And West (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Traditional scholars of philosophy and religion, both East and
West, often place a major emphasis on analyzing the nature of "the
self." In recent decades, there has been a renewed interest in
analyzing self, but most scholars have not claimed knowledge of an
ahistorical, objective, essential self free from all cultural
determinants. The contributors to this volume recognize the need to
contextualize specific views of self and to analyze such views in
terms of the dynamic, dialectical relations between self and
culture.An unusual feature of this book is that all of the chapters
not only focus on traditions and individuals, East and West, but
include as primary emphases comparative philosophy, religion, and
culture, reinforcing individual and cultural creativity. Each
chapter brings specific Eastern and Western perspectives into a
dynamic, comparative relation. This comparative orientation
emphasizes our growing sense of interrelatedness and
interdependency."Culture and Self" includes many Asian and Western
philosophical, religious, and cultural perspectives. Chapters focus
on Vedanta, Samkhya-Yoga, and other Hindu approaches, as well as
Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist and other Indian, Chinese, and Japanese
perspectives. Studies present Cartesian and other dominant Western
perspectives, as well as Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, feminism, and
other Western challenges to the dominant Western interpretations of
culture and self.This volume will appeal to students and readers of
philosophy, religious studies, Asian studies, and cultural studies.
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