Larson Gerald James Editor (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. Softcover in Very Good condition. Clean pages. Good binding. Minimal wear to the exterior. Carefully packaged to avoid damage in shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. IX, 316 pages : 22 cm. Summary:This volume is a "state-of-the-art" assessment of comparative philosophy written by some of the leading practitioners of the field. While its primary focus is on gaining methodological clarity regarding the comparative enterprise of "interpreting across boundaries," the book also contains new substantive essays on Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and European thought. The contributors are Roger T. Ames, William Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, A. S. Cua, Eliot Deutsch, Charles Hartshorne, Daya Krishna, Gerald James Larson, Sengaku Mayeda, Hajime Nakamura, Raimundo Panikkar, Karl H. Potter, Henry Rosemont, Jr., Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Ninian Smart, Fritz Staal, and Frederick J. Streng.Comparative or cross-cultural philosophy can be seen as a relative newcomer to the field of philosophy. It has its antecedents in the emergence of comparative studies in nineteenth-century European intellectual history, as well as in the sequence of East-West Philosophers' Conferences at the University of Hawaii, which began in 1939. This book will prove to be of great significance in helping to define a field that is only now becoming fully self-conscious, methodologically and substantively, about its role and function in the larger enterprises of philosophy and comparative studies.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. First edition. Octavo. vii, (3), 478pp. Index. Plus (5)pp. publisher's catalog. Pictorial buckram, lavender spine lettered in white & black. Frontispiece portrait. Head of spine and lower corner of front cover slightly bumped. A near fine, but ex-library copy with a minimal rubber library stamp on title page and at bottom edge of text block. This collection of original essays provides fascinating insights into yoga as a historical and pluralistic phenomenon flourishing in a variety of religious and philosophical contexts. They cover a wide variety of traditions and topics related to Yoga: Classical Yoga, S??khya, Tantric Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, the Guru, Indic Islamic traditions of Yoga, Yoga and asceticism in contemporary India, and the reception of Yoga in the West. The essays are written by eighteen professors in the field of the history of religions, most of them former graduate students of Gerald James Larson, Larson is Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington, Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, an internationally acclaimed scholar on the history of religions and philosophies of India, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the Samkhya and Yoga traditions. The publication is in honour of him. (Publisher) Contents: Introduction : yoga traditions /; Knut A. Jacobsen --; Person, purity, and power in the Yogasutra /; Lloyd W. Pfleuger --; Revisiting the Jivanmukti question in Samkhya in the context of the Samkhyasutra /; T.S. Rukmani --; Being a witness : cross-examining the notion of self in Sankara's Upadesasahasri, Isvarakrsna's Samkhyakarika, and Patanjali's Yogasutra /; Richa Pauranik Clements --; 'It ain't necessarily so' /; Nandini Iyer --; The Samkhya-yoga influence on Srivaisnava philosophy with special reference to the Pancaratra system /; P. Pratap Kumar --; Interpreting across mystical boundaries : an analysis of Samadhi in the Trika-Kaula tradition /; Jeffrey S. Lidke. Volume 110 of Brill's "Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions.".

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.02x6.00x0.47 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.02x6.00x0.63 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Overall good condition. Dust jacket has shelf wear on corners. Corners are square, binding is tight. Pages are crisp and clean with some annotations. Title page is not dated. Copyright is dated 1987. 675 pages. We are a real brick and mortar bookstore and ship books everyday. This listing was written by an actual person with the book in front of them for inspection. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 478 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 316 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.02x6.00x0.63 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.