Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-7425-1349-5 • Hardback • January 2003 • $137.00 • (£105.00)
978-0-7425-1350-1 • Paperback • January 2003 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
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Robert C. Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of numerous books and textbooks in philosophy, including From Rationalism to Existentialism, The Passions, and The Bully Culture. Kathleen M. Higgins, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, The Music of Our Lives, and Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science. Together, they have written A Short History of Philosophy, What Nietzsche Really Said, and edited World Philosophy: A Text with Readings.
Chapter 1 Understanding Order: The Chinese Perspective
Chapter 2 Ways of Japanese Thinking
Chapter 3 Traditional American Indian Attitudes toward Nature
Chapter 4 Pre-Columbian and Modern Philosophical Perspectives in Latin America
Chapter 5 Arabic Philosophy
Chapter 6 Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 7 Persian Philosophy
Chapter 8 The Myth of Authenticity: Personhood, Traditional Culture, and African Philosophy
Chapter 9 Indian Philosophies
Chapter 10 Buddhist Philosophy
Chapter 11 Måori Philosophy
Chapter 12 Esoteric Philosophy
Robert Solomon and Kathy Higgins, editors, and the many distinguished contributors are to be congratulated for this excellent second edition of the work. The new chapters on Jewish, Buddhist, and Maori Philosophy maintain the high standard of the original chapters, all of which are written with great clarity and insight. Anyone interested in the philosophies of the world should gratefully accept the invitation to learn from this fine book.
— Eliot Deutsch, University of Hawaii