ABSTRACT

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.

part I|34 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|13 pages

Orientations

The issues

chapter Chapter 2|19 pages

Orientalism

Some conjectures

part II|58 pages

The making of the ‘Orient’

chapter Chapter 3|17 pages

China cult

The age of Enlightenment

chapter Chapter 4|17 pages

Passage to India

The age of Romanticism

chapter Chapter 5|22 pages

Buddhist passions

The nineteenth century

part III|86 pages

Orientalism in the twentieth century

chapter Chapter 7|18 pages

Philosophical encounters

chapter Chapter 8|19 pages

Religious dialogue

Religious dialogue

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

Psychological interpretations

chapter Chapter 10|14 pages

Scientific and ecological speculations

part IV|47 pages

Conclusions

chapter Chapter 11|29 pages

Reflections and reorientations

chapter Chapter 12|16 pages

Orientalism and postmodernity