Migrating texts & traditions [Texte imprimé] / edited by William Sweet

Notes bibliogr.

Introduction: What does it mean for texts and traditions to migrate? / William Sweet -- The migration of Aristotelian philosophy to China in the 17th century / Vincent Shen -- The reformulation of the Philoponean proofs in mediaeval Jewish thought / Gyongyi Hegedus -- Putting Islam and 'The West' together again : the philosophy of M.M. Sharif / Leslie Armour -- British idealism as a migrating tradition / William Sweet -- The migration of ideas and Afrikaans philosophy in South Africa / Pieter Duvenage -- Heidegger, Japanese aesthetics, and the idea of a 'dialogue' between East and West / Chinatsu Kobayashi -- Hermeneutics and the migration of philosophical traditions in East Asia / Cristal Huang -- Dārā Shukoh and the transmission of the Upaniṣads to Islam / Jonardon Ganeri -- A Buddhist 'good life' theory : Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra / Linda E. Patrik -- Sharing insights : Buddhism and recent Aristotelian ethics / Sheila Mason -- Process concepts of text, practice, and no self in Buddhism / Frank J. Hoffman -- On being enabled to say what is "truly real" / Peter J. McCormick -- The philosophers of Al Andalus and European modernity / David Lea -- Radhakrishnan and the construction of philosophical dialogue across cultural traditions / Denys P. Leighton -- Philosophy-in-place and texts out of place / Bruce B. Janz -- Migrating texts : a hermeneutical perspective / Kuan-Min Huang -- Text, rationality, and knowledge in Indian philosophy / Eliot Deutsch -- Afterword : Migration: explanation, analysis, and directions / William Sweet

This volume examines the phenomenon of the migration of philosophical texts and traditions into other cultures, identifies places where it may have succeeded, but also where it has not, and discusses what is presupposed in introducing a text or a tradition into another intellectual culture. -- Book Jacket