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Pages: 402
Authors: Leonard Angel
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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This book shows that mysticism is incomplete without scientific rationalism, and that our current social and political projects cannot be completed without assi
Oriental Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: J.J. Clarke
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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Style and level of discussion makes this an ideal intro to Western thought and the East: not philosophically dense. Said's classics `Orientalism' only discusses
Inventing Eastern Europe
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Larry Wolff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.
Encounter with Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Robert E. Carter
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world's social, economic
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Samar Attar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-23 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on