Solomon, Robert C. : University of Texas at Austin
Robert C. Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, is author
of numerous books and textbooks in philosophy, including From Rationalism to Existentialism, The Passions, and
The Bully Culture.
Higgins, Kathleen M. : University of Texas at Austin
Kathleen M. Higgins, associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of
Nietzsche's Zarathustra, The Music of Our Lives, and Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science. Together, they have
written A Short History of Philosophy, What Nietzsche Really Said, and edited World Philosophy: A Text with Readings.
Review
"Robert Solomon and Kathy Higgins, editors, and the many distinguished contributors are to be congratulated
for this excellent second editon of the work. The new chapters on Jewish, Buddhist and Maori Philosophy maintain
the high standard of the original chapters, all of which are written with great clarity and insight. Anyone interested
in the philosophies of the world should gratefully accept the invitation to learn from this fine book."
In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some
of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated
philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading
scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to these concepts for the first time. Building on
revisions and updates to the original essays on China, India, Japan, and the Americas, this new edition also considers
three philosophical traditions for the first time--Jewish, Buddhist, and South Pacific (Måori) philosophy.
Table of Contents
Understanding Order: The Chinese Perspective
David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames
Ways of Japanese Thinking
Graham Parkes
Traditional American Indian Attitudes toward Nature
J. Baird Callicott and Thomas W. Overholt
Pre-Columbian and Modern Philosophical Perspectives in Latin America
Jorge Valadez
Arabic Philosophy
Eric Ormsby
Jewish Philosophy
Oliver Leaman
Persian Philosophy
Homayoon Sepasi-Tehrani and Janet Flesch
The Myth of Authenticity: Personhood, Traditional Culture, and African Philosophy
Jacqueline Trimier
Indian Philosophies
Stephen H. Phillips
Buddhist Philosophy
Peter D. Hershock
Måori Philosophy
Roy W. Perrett
Esoteric Philosophy
Robert A. McDermott
