Culture and Self - Philosophical and Religious Perspectives, East and West

Informationen zum Autor Douglas B. Allen Klappentext This book focuses on traditions and individuals, religion, culture, reinforcing individual and cultural creativity. It brings specific Eastern and Western perspectives into a dynamic, comparative relation and emphasizes growing sense of interrelatedness and interdependency. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on traditions and individuals, religion, culture, reinforcing individual and cultural creativity. It brings specific Eastern and Western perspectives into a dynamic, comparative relation and emphasizes growing sense of interrelatedness and interdependency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface -- Introduction -- Multiple Asian and Western Perspectives -- Social Constructions of Self: Some Asian, Marxist, and Feminist Critiques of Dominant Western Views of Self -- How Universal Is Psychoanalysis? The Self in India, Japan, and the United States -- Chinese and Western Perspectives -- Ethics, Relativism, and the Self -- Classical Confucian and Contemporary Feminist Perspectives on the Self: Some Parallels and Their Implications -- Buddho-Taoist and Western Metaphysics of the Self -- Indian and Western Perspectives -- Reducing Concern with Self: Parfit and the Ancient Buddhist Schools -- Sartre and Samkhya-Yoga on Self -- Japanese and Western Perspectives -- Nietzsche and Nishitani on Nihilism and Tradition -- Views of Japanese Selfhood: Japanese and Western Perspectives

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Douglas Allen, Douglas B Allen, Douglas B. Allen, Douglas Malhotra Allen, Ashok Malhotra
• Mitarbeit: Douglas Allen (Herausgeber), Douglas B. Allen (Herausgeber), Editor (Herausgeber), Editors (Herausgeber), Ashok Malhotra (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Perseus Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 11.04.1997
• EAN: 9780813326740
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-2674-0
• Seiten: 208
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Philosophie, Kulturwissenschaften, Das Selbst, das Ich, Identität und Persönlichkeit