"non-Western" Philosophy

[Jo]

" An alternative approach to the history of philosophy — one that takes the
aim of opening up the discipline seriously — would treat both Western and
non-Western philosophy as the regional inflections of a global phenomenon."

Brilliant article, a view shared by a few and long overdue. 
But how stuck in their ethnocentric mire are our universities??

Joanna Kirkpatrick
Anthropologist


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Some Indology subscribers may be interested in the following, from the
electronic edition of the New York Times:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/philosophys-western-bias/?re
f=global-home

Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies The University of Chicago
Divinity School Directeur d'études Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris