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Article: The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy.(Review) (book review)
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- Philosophy East and West
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- January 1, 2001
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The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy. Edited by Roger T. Ames. Chicago: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xiv + 225. Hardcover $42.95.
The quality of the eleven contributions to The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutschon on Comparative Philosophy, edited by Roger T. Ames, which celebrates the work of Eliot Deutsch, is one measure of the man. The other is the man himself. It is no exaggeration to say that his efforts as a philosopher and editor of Philosophy East and West helped lay the foundation for the flourishing discipline now called comparative philosophy. In this work, some of the more important philosophers engaged in this worldwide ...