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100 | 1 | _aBiderman, Shlomo. | |
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_aMasaʻot filosofim. _lEnglish |
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_aCrossing horizons : _bworld, self, and language in Indian and Western thought / _cShlomo Biderman ; translated by Ornan Rotem. |
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_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _cc2008. |
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_ax, 356 pages. ; _c24 cm. |
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_2rdacontent _atext _btxt |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index. | ||
520 | _aIn this book, Shlomo Biderman examines the views, outlooks, and attitudes of two distinct cultures: the West and classical India. He turns to a rich and varied collection of primary sources: the Rg Veda, the Upanishads, and texts by the Buddhist philosophers Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu, among others. In studying the West, Biderman considers the Bible and its commentaries, the writings of such philosophers as Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, and Derrida, and the literature of Kafka, Melville, and Orwell. Additional sources are Mozart's Don Giovanni and seminal films like Ingmar Bergman's Persona. Biderman uses concrete examples from religion and literature to illustrate the formal aspects of the philosophical problems of transcendence, language, selfhood, and the external world and then demonstrates their plausibility in actual situations. Though his method of analysis is comparative, Biderman does not adopt the disinterested stance of an "ideal" spectator. Rather, Biderman approaches ancient Indian thought and culture from a Western philosophical standpoint to uncover cultural presuppositions that can be difficult to expose from within the culture in question. The result is a fascinating landmark in the study of Indian and Western thought. Through his comparative prism, Biderman explores the most basic ideas underlying human culture, and his investigation not only sheds light on India's philosophical traditions but also facilitates a deeper understanding of our own. - From Amazon. | ||
650 | 0 | _aPhilosophy, Comparative. | |
650 | 0 | _aPhilosophy, Indic. | |
650 | 0 | _aSelf (Philosophy) | |
650 | 0 | _aTranscendence (Philosophy) | |
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_aLanguage and languages _xPhilosophy. |
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_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0723/2007029930.html |
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_3Book review (H-Net) _uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32783 |
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