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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.
List of contents
Introduction -- Part 1 Multiple Asian and Western Perspectives -- 1 Social Constructions of Self: Some Asian, Marxist, and Feminist Critiques of Dominant Western Views of Self -- 2 How Universal Is Psychoanalysis? The Self in India, Japan, and the United States -- Part 2 Chinese and Western Perspectives -- 3 Ethics, Relativism, and the Self -- 4 Classical Confucian and Contemporary Feminist Perspectives on the Self: Some Parallels and Their Implications -- 5 Buddho-Taoist and Western Metaphysics of the Self -- Part 3 Indian and Western Perspectives -- 6 Reducing Concern with Self: Parfit and the Ancient Buddhist Schools -- 7 Sartre and Samkhya-Yoga on Self -- Part 4 Japanese and Western Perspectives -- 8 Nietzsche and Nishitani on Nihilism and Tradition -- 9 Views of Japanese Selfhood: Japanese and Western Perspectives
About the author
Douglas B. Allen is professor of philosophy at the University of Maine.
Summary
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.
