After Confucius : Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy

After Confucius is a collection of eight studies of Chinese philosophy from the time of Confucius to the formation of the empire in the second and third centuries B.C.E. As detailed in a masterful introduction, each essay serves as a concrete example of "thick description" an approach invented by philosopher Gilbert Ryle, which aims to reveal the logic that informs an observable exchange among …

After Appropriation

While there have been a number of specialized books in the field of comparative philosophy, and many in the field of comparative religion, there are few scholars who can address both disciplines. Furthermore, when these disciplines are virtually mutually exclusive, as in Western academia, a full appreciation of non-Western approaches to either religion or philosophy is not easily attained, and …

After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers about the World, the U.S. and Themselves

After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, they also comment on their own role in US society – and the mounting challenges they face today. The conversations illustrate the hopes and expectations, the anger and f…

Afropolitan Horizons : Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelis…

Advances in Electrochemical Energy Materials

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Advances in Elastomers

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Advances in Edible Oil Processing

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Advances in Econometrics

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Advances in Ecohydrology for Water Resources Optimization in Arid and Semi-ar…

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Advances in Eating Disorders

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