WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1348785833

Africa, Asia, and the history of philosophy : racism in the formation of the philosophical canon, 1780-1830

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • ""In this provocative historiography, Peter K.J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial period in the development of philosophy as an academic discipline. During these decades, a number of European philosophers influenced by Immanuel Kant began to formulate the history of philosophy as a march of progress from the Greeks to Kant - a genealogy that supplanted existing accounts beginning in Egypt or Western Asia and at a time when European interest in Sanskrit and Persian literature was flourishing. Not without debate, these traditions were ultimately deemed outside the scope of philosophy and relegated to the study of religion. Park uncovers this debate and recounts the development of an exclusionary canon of philosophy in the decades of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To what extent was this exclusion of Africa and Asia a result of the scientization of philosophy? To what extent was it a result of racism?"

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Africa, Asia, and the history of philosophy : racism in the formation of the philosophical canon, 1780-1830"
  • "Africa, Asia, and the history of philosophy racism in the formation of the philosophical canon, 1780-1830"

workExample