Migrating Texts and Traditions
There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a range of philosophies in France from Cartesianism to post-modernism, and so on.
Yet many philosophical texts and traditions have also been introduced into very different cultures and philosophical traditions than their cultures of origin – through war and colonialization, but also through religion and art, and through commercial relations and globalization. And this raises questions such as: What is it to do French philosophy in Africa, or Analytic philosophy in India, or Buddhist philosophy in North America?
This volume examines the phenomenon of the ‘migration’ of philosophical texts and traditions into other cultures, identifies places where it may have succeeded, but also where it has not, and discusses what is presupposed in introducing a text or a tradition into another intellectual culture.
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Migrating Texts and Traditions
There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a range of philosophies in France from Cartesianism to post-modernism, and so on.
Yet many philosophical texts and traditions have also been introduced into very different cultures and philosophical traditions than their cultures of origin – through war and colonialization, but also through religion and art, and through commercial relations and globalization. And this raises questions such as: What is it to do French philosophy in Africa, or Analytic philosophy in India, or Buddhist philosophy in North America?
This volume examines the phenomenon of the ‘migration’ of philosophical texts and traditions into other cultures, identifies places where it may have succeeded, but also where it has not, and discusses what is presupposed in introducing a text or a tradition into another intellectual culture.
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Overview

There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a range of philosophies in France from Cartesianism to post-modernism, and so on.
Yet many philosophical texts and traditions have also been introduced into very different cultures and philosophical traditions than their cultures of origin – through war and colonialization, but also through religion and art, and through commercial relations and globalization. And this raises questions such as: What is it to do French philosophy in Africa, or Analytic philosophy in India, or Buddhist philosophy in North America?
This volume examines the phenomenon of the ‘migration’ of philosophical texts and traditions into other cultures, identifies places where it may have succeeded, but also where it has not, and discusses what is presupposed in introducing a text or a tradition into another intellectual culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780776607078
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Publication date: 06/30/2012
Series: Actexpress Series
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)
Age Range: 15 - 17 Years

About the Author

William Sweet has published extensively in philosophy and religious studies, particularly in the history of modern philosophy and religion, ethics, the philosophy of religion, and cross-cultural philosophy. Currently Past-President of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Sweet has also served on, and chaired, a number of national and international committees. He has received a number of awards, including the President’s Award for Research at St Francis Xavier.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: What Does It Mean for Texts and Traditions to Migrate? - William Sweet

Part I: From the West
The Migration of Aristotelian Philosophy to China in the 17th Century - Vincent Shen
The Reformulation of the Philoponean Proofs in Mediaeval Jewish Thought - Gyongyi Hegedus
Putting Islam and ‘The West’ Together Again: The Philosophy of M. M. Sharif - Leslie Armour
British Idealism as a Migrating Tradition - William Sweet
The Migration of Ideas and Afrikaans Philosophy in South Africa - Pieter Duvenage
Heidegger, Japanese Aesthetics, and the Idea of a ‘Dialogue’ between East and West - Chinatsu Kobayashi
Hermeneutics and the Migration of Philosophical Traditions in East Asia - Cristal Huang

Part II: From the East and the South
Dārā Shukoh and the Transmission of the Upaniṣads to Islam - Jonardon Ganeri
A Buddhist ‘good life’ Theory: Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra - Linda E. Patrik
Sharing Insights: Buddhism and Recent Aristotelian Ethics - Sheila Mason
Process Concepts of Text, Practice, and No Self in Buddhism - Frank J. Hoffman
On Being Enabled to Say What Is “Truly Real” - Peter J. McCormick
The Philosophers of Al Andalus and European Modernity - David Lea
Radhakrishnan and the Construction of Philosophical Dialogue across Cultural Traditions - Denys P. Leighton

Part III: Theoretical Issues
Philosophy-in-Place and Texts Out of Place - Bruce B. Janz
Migrating Texts: A Hermeneutical Perspective - Kuan-Min Huang
Text, Rationality, and Knowledge in Indian Philosophy - Eliot Deutsch
Afterword: Migration: Explanation, Analysis, and Directions - William Sweet
Index
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