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Article: Interpreting Across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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Another valiant attempt to confront the "Other." Or, at least, that was the rationale behind the seminar that led to this volume, held in Honolulu in 1984 under the auspices of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Larson makes much, in his introductory essay, of Foucault's famous laughter at certain "unusual" Chinese classificatory systems. Given the breathtaking range of problems and methods illustrated in the seventeen contributions to this volume, this reviewer thinks Foucault's laughter was a little premature.
Certain kinds of problems are "in the air." Raimundo Panikkar, before judging "comparative philosophy" an "impossibility", links it, suitably ...