Asian Worldviews: Religions, Philosophies, Political Theories

ISBN-13: 9781119165972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Rein Raud

Spis treści

Preface viiAcknowledgements xi1 India 1The Brahmanist Worldview 6Reform Movements: Jains and Buddhism 21The Development of Hinduism 45Philosophical Systems 54Indian Worldviews Under Muslim Rule 66Modern Indian Thought 732 China 89The Beginnings 94Classical Chinese Thought: The Hundred Schools 102From Han to Tang 138From Song to Qing 164From the Fall of the Empire to the Present 1853 Japan 207Prehistory and the Aristocratic Period 211The Age of the Warriors: From Kamakura to Edo 225Japanese Modernity: From Meiji to the Present 2414 Korea, Tibet, and South East Asia 257Korea 257Tibet 268Indic South East Asia 274Vietnam 281Further Reading 287Glossary of Names and Terms 293Chronological Table 311Index 319

O autorze

REIN RAUD is Professor of Asian and Cultural Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. He has published widely on Asian philosophy and cultural theory, and is the author of several books including Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture, which unites textual and sociological approaches to culture based on examples from around the world.