Introduction: What Does It Mean for Texts and Traditions to Migrate?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: What Does It Mean for Texts and Traditions to Migrate? 1
5. Part I: From the West
6. 1. The Migration of Aristotelian Philosophy to China in the 17th Century 21
7. 2. The Reformulation of the Philoponean Proofs in Mediaeval Jewish Thought 39
8. 3. Putting Islam and ‘The West’ Together Again: The Philosophy of M. M. Sharif 61
9. 4. British Idealism as a Migrating Tradition 79
10. 5. The Migration of Ideas and Afrikaans Philosophy in South Africa 105
11. 6. Heidegger, Japanese Aesthetics, and the Idea of a ‘Dialogue’ between East and West 121
12. 7. Hermeneutics and the Migration of Philosophical Traditions in East Asia 155
13. Part II: From the East and the South
14. 8. Dārā Shukoh and the Transmission of the Upaniṣads to Islam 177
15. 9. A Buddhist ‘good life’ Theory: Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra 189
16. 10. Sharing Insights: Buddhism and Recent Aristotelian Ethics 201
17. 11. Process Concepts of Text, Practice, and No Self in Buddhism 221
18. 12. On Being Enabled to Say What Is “Truly Real” 233
19. 13. The Philosophers of Al Andalus and European Modernity 251
20. 14. Radhakrishnan and the Construction of Philosophical Dialogue across Cultural Traditions 267
21. Part III: Theoretical Issues
22. 15. Philosophy-in-Place and Texts Out of Place 287
23. 16. Migrating Texts: A Hermeneutical Perspective 305
24. 17. Text, Rationality, and Knowledge in Indian Philosophy 321
25. Afterword: Migration: Explanation, Analysis, and Directions 331
26. Index 337
27. Contributors 347