Crossing Horizons
Subtitle: World, Self, and Language in Indian and Western Thought
Contributors: Ornan Rotem (Translator)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 18, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780231140249
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Non-Western philosophy; Indian Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Philosophy; India; Eastern; Movements - Deconstruction; Philosophy / Eastern; History & Surveys - Modern
Description: "In 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."--Jacket.