Heidegger and Asian Thought (National Foreign Language Center Technical Reports)

ISBN 10: 082481312X / ISBN 13: 9780824813123

Published by University of Hawaii Press, 1987

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers. Seller Inventory # BSM.U8PF

Synopsis:

Section I deals with problems presented by several Sanskrit works, namely the lower limit of the date of the original Harivamsa, Kalapriyanatha mentioned in Bhavabhuti's plays the identification of the date of Dhananjaya the author of the Dvisandhana Kavya and the Namamala and the fixation of his date the historical background of Rajasekhara's Viddhasalabhanjika etc. It gives also for the first time a detailed account for Soddhala's Udayasundarikatha.

About the Author:

Born and raised in Glasgow, Graham Parkes was educated at Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. He taught Asian and comparative philosophy at the University of Hawai'i for twenty-five years, punctuated by three years as a visiting scholar and fellow at Harvard. After a period as Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, he moved to Austria, where he is Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in Europe, China, Japan, and Singapore.

In addition to books, he has published over a hundred journal articles and book chapters on topics in Chinese, Japanese, and European thought, as well as environmental philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of art. His latest book is How to Think about the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living (Bloomsbury, 2021), and his website is at grahamparkes.net.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Heidegger and Asian Thought (National ...
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: acceptable