Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy - by A L Macfie (Paperback)

About the Book

This Reader explores the extent of Oriental influence on European thought, primarily in the period of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century period of doubt and scepticism that followed it. It is the first Reader to bring together in one place a series of specific historical and textual studies of Oriental influence upon European thinkers.

Book Synopsis

This Reader explores the extent of Oriental influence on European thought, primarily in the period of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century period of doubt and scepticism that followed it. It is the first Reader to bring together in one place a series of specific historical and textual studies of Oriental influence upon European thinkers.

Review Quotes

The coverage is broad and attractive, focusing on a number of major contributors to this field, and making use of extracts from a range of highly esteemed scholarly works. The issue of orientalism, as well as related issues concerning the encounter between Europe and Asia at various levels, is a subject of considerable academic, as well as wider, interest at the present time, and I believe that this work well reflects these concerns, and will provide a useful collection of relevant writings.--Professor John Clarke, Kingston University

This is an important project and there is nothing quite like it currently available.--Professor Richard King, University of Derby

About the Author

Alexander Lyon Macfie's publications include The Eastern Question (1988; 1996), The Straits Question (1993), Ataturk (1994), and The End of the Ottoman Empire (1998).