Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Malebranche and Chinese Philosophy 29
5. 2. The Pre-Established Harmony Between Leibniz and Chinese Thought 55
6. 3. The Sinophilism of Christian Wolff (1679-1754) 69
7. 4. Voltaire, Sinophile 83
8. 5. The Possibility of Oriental Influence in Hume’s Philosophy 110
9. 6. Herder and German Romanticism 130
10. 7. Hegel 141
11. 8. Schelling and Schopenhauer 161
12. 9. The Influences of Eastern Thought on Schopenhauer’s Doctrine of the Thing-in-Itself 187
13. 10. Emerson and Indian Philosophy 220
14. 11. Thoreau’s India: The Impact of Reading in a Crisis 230
15. 12. Thoreau’s Hindu Quotations in A Week 242
16. 13. Nietzsche’s Trans-European Eye 247
17. 14. Nietzsche and the Laws of Manu 260
18. 15. Taoism and Jung: Synchronicity and the Self 279
19. 16. Martin Buber and Taoism 296
20. 17. Heidegger’s Hidden Sources: East Asian Influences on his Work 315
21. Bibliography 323
22. Copyright Acknowledgements 343
23. Index 345