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Product Description: Between Two Worlds is the autobiography of one of the most distinguished philosophers to come out of India in recent years, J.N. Mohanty. Tracing Mohanty's journey from Calcutta to Bangalore, Gottingen, America and Britain, this book spans the globe--literally as well as metaphorically--"from East to West...read more

Product Description: This collection, bringing together essays written in the 1990s by leading philosopher J.N. Mohanty, provides valuable insights into Indian philosophy. Mohanty's writings dispel the characterization of Indian philosophy as simply a search for the spirit, showing how it is also a critical analysis of the data provided by experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Philosophical Questions: East and West is an anthology of source material for use in comparative courses in philosophy, religion, and the humanities. The readings—derived from the great works of the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, and Western intellectual traditions—are presented as answers to some of the most enduring questions in philosophy. Discussions are arranged under the headings of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and the nature of human being. Each section begins with an introductory essay in which the leading questions and their responses from different traditions are presented in overview.Philosophical Questions raises the central questions of comparative philosophy and eloquently argues the need for discarding familiar cliches to make a fresh, unprejudiced study of these traditions. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this comprehensive textbook, renowned philosopher J. N. Mohanty examines the range of Indian philosophy from the Sutra period through the 17th century Navya Nyaya. Classical Indian Philosophy is divided into three parts that cover epistemology, metaphysics, and the attempt to transcend the distinction between subject and object...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume develop the ideas of Kant, Hegel and Husserl, leading to an explication of the fundamental concepts of logic - the concepts of `judgment', `truth' and the modalities. It is a book on philosophy of logic, spanning the gap between Kant and Hegel on the one hand, and Husserl, Frege and Lask on the other, mediated by such thinkers as Heidegger and König...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The author applies the methods of latest linguistic analysis to the Indian theories of reality and the relation between language and reality. Special attention is given to the Advaita Ved?nta and the Buddhist theories. The proper methods of philosophy, according to the author, is the logical analysis of language...read more

Product Description: J. N. Mohanty is one of America's leading interpreters of Husserl's phenomenology and the phenomenological movement for which Husserl's work was the impetus.This collection of essays traces the themes of essentialism and transcendentalism as they have appeared in the development of phenomenology from Husserl to Derrida...read more