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Author: Peter K. J. Park
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.336kg
ISBN: 9781438446424
ISBN 10: 143844642
Pages: 253
Publication Date: 02 January 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy is a welcome addition to a neglected area in the history of ideas. Philosophy has long suffered from exclusions that keep us from fully appreciating the contributions to our field from Africa and Asia. Park's book uncovers some of the sources of philosophy's exclusionary practices. The historical detail is impressive. - Elizabeth Millan, author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy
What makes Park's volume distinctive is the author's proactive approach ... Park takes sedulous care in exposing cracks in the history of philosophy's foundation, and digs deeper to examine how each crack is connected ... in his reconsideration of the history of philosophy, Park seriously engages the racism still to be found at work in philosophy today. - Radical Philosophy Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy is a welcome addition to a neglected area in the history of ideas. Philosophy has long suffered from exclusions that keep us from fully appreciating the contributions to our field from Africa and Asia. Park's book uncovers some of the sources of philosophy's exclusionary practices. The historical detail is impressive. - Elizabeth Millan, author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy
"""Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy is a fascinating study of racism and Eurocentrism in eighteenth century works on history of philosophy."" - Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World ""Now, finally, we have an excellent account of ... the exclusion of Asian and African texts from the canon of world philosophy ... an acute, critical narrative that should force philosophers to re-examine disreputable pillars of their tradition."" - Chronicle Review ""What makes Park's volume distinctive is the author's proactive approach ... Park takes sedulous care in exposing cracks in the history of philosophy's foundation, and digs deeper to examine how each crack is connected ... in his reconsideration of the history of philosophy, Park seriously engages the racism still to be found at work in philosophy today."" - Radical Philosophy ""Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy is a welcome addition to a neglected area in the history of ideas. Philosophy has long suffered from exclusions that keep us from fully appreciating the contributions to our field from Africa and Asia. Park's book uncovers some of the sources of philosophy's exclusionary practices. The historical detail is impressive."" - Elizabeth Millan, author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy"
Author Information
Peter K. J. Park is Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the coeditor (with Douglas T. McGetchin and Damodar SarDesai) of Sanskrit and 'Orientalism': Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958.
