P H I L O S O P H Y – World & Asian Philosophies
Key Concepts in World Philosophies
Everything You Need to Know About Doing Cross-Cultural Philosophy Edited by Sarah Flavel, Bath Spa University, UK & Chiara Robbiano, University College Utrecht, the Netherlands This collection brings together core ideas associated with the major Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, African, Ancient Greek, Indigenous and modern European philosophers. From Chinese xin to equity in Islamic thought, an international team of experts cover a diverse set of theories originating from thinkers such as such as Confucius, Buddha, Dogen, Nietzsche and Zhuangzi. Beginning with an introduction about the need of valuing diversity for navigating the 21st century, this one-of-a-kind study guide allows you to read philosophical texts from all over the world and understand how to practice cross-cultural philosophy. UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 528 pages PB 9781350168121 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350168114 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350168145 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781350168138 • £17.99 / $24.72 Bloomsbury Academic
Interpreting Chinese Philosophy A New Methodology
Jana S. Rošker, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Analysing the most common misconceptions based around the basis paradigms surrounding Western Sinology, Jana Rošker alerts us to the problems and dangers of current approaches. She exposes the impossible comparisons and prejudiced assumptions that arise when we use rational analysis, a major feature of the European intellectual tradition, to read Chinese philosophy. Instead of transferring concepts and categories from Western Sinology onto socio-cultural Chinese contexts, Rošker constructs a new methodology of reading, understanding and interpreting Chinese philosophy and allows us to master a more autochthonous understanding of Chinese philosophy. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 194 pages PB 9781350199903 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350199866 ePub 9781350199880 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350199873 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Toward a New Image of Paramartha
Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited Ching Keng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Engaging with the digitalised Chinese Buddhist canon, Ching Keng draws on clues from a longlost Dunhuang fragment and considers its striking similarities with Paramartha’s corpus with respect to terminology, style of phrasing and doctrines. In this new, cutting-edge interpretation and exploration of the concept of jiexing, Keng makes the case that the fragment in fact preserves Paramartha’s original teachings. This volume serves to demystify the image of Paramartha and reassesses the relationship between the Awakening of Faith and Paramartha, Paramartha and Xuanzang (602-664), and Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha. UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350303904 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350303928 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350303911 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic
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Readings in Chinese Women’s Philosophical and Feminist Thought
From the Late 13th to Early 21st Century Edited and translated by Ann A. Pang-White, University of Scranton, USA This collection gathers original writings on women in China from the Yuan dynasty through to the Republic, when women’s learning blossomed as a result of economic prosperity, the development of commercial printing and the interaction between the East and the West. Selections are made from canonical texts, plays, poetry, novels, essays, and revolutionary writings that illuminate the lived experience of women. With many texts translated into English for the first time, this reader provides the groundwork needed to understand them. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 448 pages PB 9781350046122 • £32.99 / $44.95 • HB 9781350046139 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePub 9781350046146 • £29.69 / $41.21 ePdf 9781350046153 • £29.69 / $41.21 Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Interrelatedness in Chinese Religious Traditions An Intercultural Philosophy
Diana Arghirescu, University of Québec at Montreal, Canada Diana Arghirescu engages with Song-dynasty Confucian and Buddhist theoretical developments through studying the original texts of the Chan scholar-monk Qisong (1007-1072) and the Neo-Confucian master Zhu Xi (1130-1200). She builds an interpretive theory focusing on “ethical interrelatedness”, proposing it as a theoretical tool for the study of the Chinese religious traditions. By actively engaging with other contemporary theories of religion and refusing to approach Chinese religions with Western frameworks, Arghirescu’s comparative perspective makes it possible to uncover differences between the various Western and Chinese cultural presuppositions upon which these theories are built. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350256859 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350256873 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350256866 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic
African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition The Space of Thought
Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida, USA Using classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to realise new connections and intersections between both fields. The idea that cognition is embodied and embedded in a social world neatly maps onto specifically African epistemologies to outline a new direction of study on what philosophy is. By working through a rich range of texts and thinkers, Janz provides a fruitful new interpretation of African philosophy alongside close readings of seminal and previously marginalized thinkers. UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350292185 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350292208 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350292192 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic
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