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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|34 pages
Introduction
part II|58 pages
The making of the ‘Orient’
part III|86 pages
Orientalism in the twentieth century
chapter Chapter 6|17 pages
East-West encounter in the twentieth century
chapter Chapter 7|18 pages
Philosophical encounters
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
Psychological interpretations
chapter Chapter 10|14 pages
Scientific and ecological speculations
part IV|47 pages
Conclusions