Bilimoria Purushottama - The Routledge History of Indian Philosophy

History of Indian Philosophy

Routledges History of Indian Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Indian philosophy over the last three thousand years. An outstanding team of international contributors provide fifty-eight accessible chapters, organised into three clear parts:

knowledge, context, concepts

philosophical traditions

engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern.

This outstanding collection is essential reading for students of Indian philosophy. It will also be of interest to those seeking to explore the lasting significance of this rich and complex philosophical tradition, and to philosophers who wish to learn about Indian philosophy through a comparative lens.

Purushottama Bilimoria is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University and Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been Chancellors Scholar. He has been a Fellow at Harvard and Oxford (All Souls and OCHS). He serves as Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Faculty at the Center for Dharma Studies in the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, as well as Editor-in-Chief of two journals, Sophia and the International Journal of Dharma Studies. His research and publications are on classical Indian philosophy, emotions, aesthetics, comparative ethics, continental philosophy, comparative philosophy of religion, diaspora, bioethics, secularity and customary law.

J. N. Mohanty is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. Professor Mohanty earned his PhD from the University of Gttingen. He has taught at the University of Burdwan, the University of Calcutta, the New School for Social Research, the University of Oklahoma and Temple University. His area of expertise includes both European and Indian philosophy. He has written widely on different areas of philosophy and founded the journal Husserl Studies. Professor Mohanty has been a past President of the Indian Philosophical Congress and the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. In 2013, he received an honorary DLitt degree from the University of Calcutta.

Amy Rayner completed a joint degree in Philosophy, Literature and Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has served as editorial secretary of Sophia and is an editorial assistant for Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures (Springer). She has served as Assistant Editor and Project Secretary for publications including Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagements (2015), Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (2009) and Indian Ethics, vol. 1 (2007/2017). She has contributed an article on dying from the Hindu and Buddhist perspective to Ageing and Spirituality across Faiths and Cultures (2010) and presently is co-editing Indian Ethics, vol. 2 (forthcoming 2018).

John Powers is a former Professor of Asian Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Currently, Dr Powers is Research Professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute in Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. His PhD is from the University of Virginia, USA. He is author of several books on Buddhist philosophy, with a focus on the Yogcra school and internal debates within the Madhyamaka and Abhidharma schools, drawing from Tibetan, Chinese and Sanskrit textual sources. He has contributed a chapter to this volume.

Stephen Phillips is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and has been Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is the author of seven books, including Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth (2009) and Epistemology in Classical India (2011). Phillips is perhaps best known for his first-time translations of late classical Sanskrit philosophic texts, including the fourteenth-century Tattva-cint-mai. He has contributed a chapter to this volume.

Richard King is Professor of Buddhist and Asian Studies and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent, UK. His work examines classical Indian (Hindu and Buddhist) philosophy and its ongoing representation through the category of religion in the modern period. Dr Kings current research work explores comparative approaches to apophatic discourse (Buddhist, Vedantic and Christian) and the philosophical and ethical questions arising from the transformation of what has come to be called mindfulness meditation from its roots as a Buddhist monastic practice to its current deployment as a modern secularised therapy.

Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA. He has published Karma and Creativity (1986), Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993), Reconciling Yogas (2003), Yoga and the Luminous (2008) and several edited volumes on religion and ecology. He serves on the advisory boards for the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale), the Ahimsa Center (Pomona) and the Jaina Studies Centre (London). He edits the journal Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology. He has contributed a chapter to this volume.

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Routledge History of Indian Philosophy

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Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy

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Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy

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ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF WORLD PHILOSOPHIES

HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

Editor-in-Chief: Purushottama Bilimoria

Associate Editors: J. N. Mohanty, Amy Rayner, John Powers, Stephen Phillips, Richard King, and Christopher Key Chapple