Product Description: This volume comprises a number of letters between author Anindita Niyogi Balslev and philosopher Richard Rorty. The letters explore ways to generate a creative and critical cross cultural discourse not only by challenging stereotypes about cultures and subcultures in general and traditions of thought in particular, but by being careful not to abolish the common ground on which stereotypes can be addressed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on Sanskrit source material, this book provides a unique yet comprehensive review of the widely divergent views about time in Indian thought. Since the concept of time intertwines with major concepts such as causality, being and non-being, etc...read more

Product Description: The eleven essays in this collection address various aspects of cross-cultural studies. Contributors were visiting scholars at the Center for Cultural Research at Aarhus University in Denmark. The clarity provided by their reflections concerning both the rewards and limitations of cross-cultural studies will be increasingly important now that we've entered the pluralistic world of the new millennium...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume, all freshly written for this purpose, focus on the concept of time in the major religious traditions. Two essays prepare the methodological grounds - by elaborating the phenomenological and existential conceptions of time and their religious significance...read more