What is the place of Eastern thought-Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Confucianism-in the
Western intellectual tradition? Oriental Enlightenment shows how, despite current talk …

In this book, JJ Clarke shows us how Taoist texts, ideas, and practices have been
assimilated within a whole range of Western ideas and agendas. We see how Chinese …

CH Waddington's concepts of 'chreods'(canalized paths of development) and
'homeorhesis'(the tendency to return to a path), each associated with 'morphogenetic fields' …

West is a concept widely used in international relations, but we rarely reflect on what we
mean by the term. Conceptions of and what the West is vary widely. This book examines …

Asian tourist behaviour is often characterised along essentialistic terms such as Asians are
collectivistic and hierarchical. The essentialist approach to understanding culture faces …

Classicists have long been wary of comparisons, partly for ideological reasons related to the
incomparability of 'the Classical', partly because of the often problematic basis and limited …

Current struggles for egalitarian and ecologically just futures have emerged as responses to
the long history of social and environmental miseries wrought in the global expansion and …

Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the
study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society …

Drawing on Buddhist thought and offering, in part, a response to Edward Said's classic work
in the same field, Translating Orients re-interprets Orientalism and shows the vital presence …

Colonial experiences, imperial ventures, globalization, and defensive modernization are the
challenges facing Middle East nations as they move from a moment of national …