Emmanuel A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-32388-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 760 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy is the mostcomprehensive single volume on the subject available; it offers thevery latest scholarship to create a wide-ranging survey of the mostimportant ideas, problems, and debates in the history of Buddhistphilosophy.
* Encompasses the broadest treatment of Buddhist philosophyavailable, covering social and political thought, meditation,ecology and contemporary issues and applications
* Each section contains overviews and cutting-edge scholarshipthat expands readers understanding of the breadth and diversity ofBuddhist thought
* Broad coverage of topics allows flexibility toinstructors in creating a syllabus
* Essays provide valuable alternative philosophical perspectiveson topics to those available in Western traditions

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emmanuel, Steven M.

Über Autor(innen)

Steven M. Emmanuel is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Logic of Revelation (1996) and editor of two previous volumes with Blackwell: The Guide to the Modern Philosophers: From Descartes to Nietzsche (2001) and Modern Philosophy: An Anthology (2002). In 2008, he produced and directed an award-winning documentary film entitled Making Peace with Viet Nam.