Jonardon Ganeri (University of Liverpool Professor of Philosophy)

Broschiertes Buch

THE CONCEALED ART OF THE SOUL

THEORIES OF SELF AND PRACTICES OF TRUTH IN INDIAN ETHICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

Beschreibung

Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. Ganeri discusses the Upanisads, the Buddha's discourses, the epic Mahabharata; he shows that many Western theories of selfhood are developed to a high degree of sophistication in these writings.

Autor

Jonardon Ganeri is a philosopher who draws upon Indian, European and Ango-American sources in his work. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He read Mathematics at Cambridge before commencing graduate studies in Philosophy at London and Oxford. He has been a Jacobsen Fellow in Philosophy at King's College London and a Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge. As well as teaching at various Universities in Britain, he has held visiting professorships at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199658596
• ISBN-10: 0199658595
• Artikelnr.: 35712501