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This book explores the constitutive role alterity plays in identity formation in Western and Eastern traditions. Contributors examine the significance of difference in conceptions of identity across major philosophical and religious traditions in a global and comparative context, considering Ancient Greek and Egyptian, Chinese, Islamic, European, and Japanese philosophies. In addition, the book opens up discussion of less dominant trends in philosophical thinking, particularly the spaces between self-same existence and otherness in the histories of philosophical and religious thought. The contributors critique both essentialist and postmodern understandings of self-constitution by questioning the ordinary narrative of identity construction across Western and non-Western traditions. The book also explores the construction of selfhood from a wide range of perspectives, drawing upon individual philosophers (including Plotinus, Descartes, Geulinx, Hume, de Beavoir, Ueda, and more) as well as religious and philosophical movements, including Confucian philosophy, Zen Buddhism, Protestantism, and Post-Phenomenology. Differences in Identity in Global Philosophy and Religion represents a la

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Author

Flavel, Sarah ;Re Manning, Russell ;Flavel, Sarah

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350076532

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Psychology