Leah Kalmanson is Associate Professor and Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas, USA.

Cross-Cultural Existentialism is a very accessible text that quite successfully creates connections amid a small collection of European philosophical texts, a much larger corpus of Asian texts from the Song Dynasty to twentieth-century Korea, and a body of scholarship on Mahayana Buddhism. While that may seem ambitious, Kalmanson diligently synthesizes her argument with surprising efficiency.

• Introduction: Toward a Speculative Existentialism1. Meaningful Dilemmas: Existential Inquiry in the Western Tradition2. The Creation of New Values, Part I: Karmic Transformations3. The Creation of New Values, Part II: Cosmic Correspondences4. Rituals for Existential Re-HabituationConclusion: Return to Inner ExperienceBibliographyIndex

Leah Kalmanson is Associate Professor and Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas, USA.

Cross-Cultural Existentialism is a very accessible text that quite successfully creates connections amid a small collection of European philosophical texts, a much larger corpus of Asian texts from the Song Dynasty to twentieth-century Korea, and a body of scholarship on Mahayana Buddhism. While that may seem ambitious, Kalmanson diligently synthesizes her argument with surprising efficiency.

• Introduction: Toward a Speculative Existentialism1. Meaningful Dilemmas: Existential Inquiry in the Western Tradition2. The Creation of New Values, Part I: Karmic Transformations3. The Creation of New Values, Part II: Cosmic Correspondences4. Rituals for Existential Re-HabituationConclusion: Return to Inner ExperienceBibliographyIndex

Leah Kalmanson is Associate Professor and Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas, USA.

Cross-Cultural Existentialism is a very accessible text that quite successfully creates connections amid a small collection of European philosophical texts, a much larger corpus of Asian texts from the Song Dynasty to twentieth-century Korea, and a body of scholarship on Mahayana Buddhism. While that may seem ambitious, Kalmanson diligently synthesizes her argument with surprising efficiency.

• Introduction: Toward a Speculative Existentialism1. Meaningful Dilemmas: Existential Inquiry in the Western Tradition2. The Creation of New Values, Part I: Karmic Transformations3. The Creation of New Values, Part II: Cosmic Correspondences4. Rituals for Existential Re-HabituationConclusion: Return to Inner ExperienceBibliographyIndex