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

Allen, Douglas B./ Malhotra, Ashok

Routledge（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367315306
• DDC分類 126

Full Description

Traditional scholars of philosophy and religion, both East and West, often place a major emphasis on analyzing the nature of ?the self.? In recent decades, there has been a renewed interest in analyzing self, but most scholars have not claimed knowledge of an ahistorical, objective, essential self free from all cultural determinants. The contributo

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