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Crossing horizons : world, self, and language in Indian and Western thought
- Title
- Crossing horizons : world, self, and language in Indian and Western thought / Shlomo Biderman ; translated by Ornan Rotem.
- Author
- Biderman, Shlomo.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- x, 356 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Masaʻot filosofim. English
- Alternative Title
- Masaʻot filosofim.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Far and Beyond: Transcendence in Two Cultures -- 2. One Language, Many Things: On the Origins of Language -- 3. My-Self: Descartes and Early Upanisads on the Self -- 4. No-Self: Kant, Kafka, and Nagarjuna on the Disappearing Self -- 5. "It's All in the Mind": Berkeley, Vasubandhu, and the World Out There.
- ISBN
- 9780231140249 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 023114024X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231511599 (ebook)
- 0231511590 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2007029930
- OCLC
- ocn154711177
- 154711177
- SCSB-5388352
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries