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32 produkter
Emptiness and Omnipresence
An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism
Häftad, 2016
378 kr
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Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to …
Law and the Public Sphere in Africa
La Palabre and Other Writings
Inbunden, 2013
460 kr
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Jean Godefroy Bidima's La Palabre examines the traditional African institution of palaver as a way to create dialogue and open exchange in an effort to resolve conflict and promote democracy. In the wake of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the gacaca courts in Rwanda, Bidima …
Heaven and Earth Are not Humane
The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Inbunden, 2014
1020 kr
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That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between …
Heaven and Earth Are not Humane
The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Häftad, 2014
386 kr
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That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between …
Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority
Inbunden, 2014
1026 kr
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While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, …
Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority
Häftad, 2014
386 kr
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While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, …
Nishida Kitarō's Chiasmatic Chorology
Place of Dialectic, Dialectic of Place
Inbunden, 2015
680 kr
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Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945) is considered Japan's first and greatest modern philosopher. As founder of the Kyoto School, he began a rigorous philosophical engagement and dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel. John W. M. Krummel explores the Buddhist …
Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things
A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being
Av Yang Guorong
Inbunden, 2016
1129 kr
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Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things, Yang grapples with the …
Emptiness and Omnipresence
An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism
Inbunden, 2016
961 kr
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Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to …
Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things
A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being
Av Yang Guorong
Häftad, 2016
498 kr
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Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things, Yang grapples with the …
Nietzsche and Other Buddhas
Philosophy After Comparative Philosophy
Inbunden, 2019
905 kr
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In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy as he reflects on what makes such …
Nietzsche and Other Buddhas
Philosophy After Comparative Philosophy
Häftad, 2019
329 kr
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In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy as he reflects on what makes such …
Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa
Inbunden, 2019
1129 kr
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Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of "colony" and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua Luste Boulbina, an Algerian-French philosopher and political theorist, shows how the colony's …
Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa
Häftad, 2019
498 kr
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Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of "colony" and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua Luste Boulbina, an Algerian-French philosopher and political theorist, shows how the colony's …
Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community
Av James Ogude
Inbunden, 2019
1129 kr
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Ubuntu is premised on the ethical belief that an individual's humanity is fostered in a network of human relationships: I am because you are; we are because you are. The essays in this lively volume elevate the debate about ubuntu beyond the buzzword it has become, especially within South African …
Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community
Av James Ogude
Häftad, 2019
498 kr
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Ubuntu is premised on the ethical belief that an individual's humanity is fostered in a network of human relationships: I am because you are; we are because you are. The essays in this lively volume elevate the debate about ubuntu beyond the buzzword it has become, especially within South African …
Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy
Beyond Redemption
Av Omar Rivera
Inbunden, 2019
905 kr
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A distinctive focus of 19th- and 20th-century Latin American philosophy is the convergence of identity formation and political liberation in ethnically and racially diverse postcolonial contexts. From this perspective, Omar Rivera interprets how a "we" is articulated and deployed in central …
Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy
Beyond Redemption
Av Omar Rivera
Häftad, 2019
343 kr
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A distinctive focus of 19th- and 20th-century Latin American philosophy is the convergence of identity formation and political liberation in ethnically and racially diverse postcolonial contexts. From this perspective, Omar Rivera interprets how a "we" is articulated and deployed in central …
Reading Wiredu
Av Barry Hallen
Häftad, 2021
217 kr
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Reading Wiredu is the first comprehensive overview of the philosophical thought of Kwasi Wiredu. Born in Ghana in 1931, Wiredu, an important observer and critic of philosophy generally, remains an original and penetrating African thinker. Interrelating Wiredu's philosophical writings from across …
Reading Wiredu
Av Barry Hallen
Inbunden, 2021
848 kr
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Reading Wiredu is the first comprehensive overview of the philosophical thought of Kwasi Wiredu. Born in Ghana in 1931, Wiredu, an important observer and critic of philosophy generally, remains an original and penetrating African thinker. Interrelating Wiredu's philosophical writings from across …
Deliberative Agency
A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy
Häftad, 2022
329 kr
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Public deliberation, highly valued by many African societies, becomes the cornerstone of a new system of African political philosophy in this brilliant, highly original study. In Deliberative Agency, philosopher Uchenna Okeja offers a way to construct a new political center by building it around …
Deliberative Agency
A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy
Inbunden, 2022
905 kr
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Public deliberation, highly valued by many African societies, becomes the cornerstone of a new system of African political philosophy in this brilliant, highly original study. In Deliberative Agency, philosopher Uchenna Okeja offers a way to construct a new political center by building it around …
Building Bridges Between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism
A Comparative Hermeneutics of Qisong's "Essays on Assisting the Teaching"
Inbunden, 2022
1017 kr
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In Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism, Diana Arghirescu explores the close connections between Buddhism and Confucianism during China's Song period (960–1279). Drawing on In Essays on Assisting the Teaching written by Chan monk-scholar Qisong (1007–1072), Arghirescu examines …
Building Bridges Between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism
A Comparative Hermeneutics of Qisong's "Essays on Assisting the Teaching"
Häftad, 2022
498 kr
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In Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism, Diana Arghirescu explores the close connections between Buddhism and Confucianism during China's Song period (960–1279). Drawing on In Essays on Assisting the Teaching written by Chan monk-scholar Qisong (1007–1072), Arghirescu examines …
Decolonial Thinking
Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense
Inbunden, 2025
1278 kr
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Decolonial Thinking delves into the intricate web of colonial practices, terms, and ideas that have woven themselves into people's lives. It seeks to understand how the tendrils of coloniality have insidiously attached themselves to the very fabric of self-understanding. From the mundane to the …
Decolonial Thinking
Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense
Häftad, 2025
672 kr
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Decolonial Thinking delves into the intricate web of colonial practices, terms, and ideas that have woven themselves into people's lives. It seeks to understand how the tendrils of coloniality have insidiously attached themselves to the very fabric of self-understanding. From the mundane to the …
Philosophies of Justice in Acholi
Responsibility in Times of Collective Suffering
Inbunden, 2025
856 kr
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Since 2008 Ugandans residing in the northern region of Acholiland have been faced with the uncertainties of justice stemming from the twenty-year civil war waged between the Ugandan government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Seeking accountability and reconciliation within their …
Philosophies of Justice in Acholi
Responsibility in Times of Collective Suffering
Häftad, 2025
272 kr
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Since 2008 Ugandans residing in the northern region of Acholiland have been faced with the uncertainties of justice stemming from the twenty-year civil war waged between the Ugandan government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Seeking accountability and reconciliation within their …
Fool and the Scoundrels
Notes on a Transmodern Republicanism
Inbunden, 2027
1241 kr
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The Fool and the Scoundrels offers a sharp and original intervention in contemporary debates on decolonial thought, neoliberalism, and the future of political philosophy. Through the conceptual figures of the "fool" and the "scoundrel," it diagnoses two complementary forms of political failure: the …
Fool and the Scoundrels
Notes on a Transmodern Republicanism
Häftad, 2027
471 kr
Kommande
The Fool and the Scoundrels offers a sharp and original intervention in contemporary debates on decolonial thought, neoliberalism, and the future of political philosophy. Through the conceptual figures of the "fool" and the "scoundrel," it diagnoses two complementary forms of political failure: the …
