Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy: A Reader

This Reader explores the extent of Oriental influence on European thought, primarily in the period of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century period of doubt and scepticism that followed it. It is the first Reader to bring together in one place a series of specific historical and textual studies of Oriental influence upon European thinkers.

Author: A. L. Macfie
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 03/25/2003
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.84w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780748617418

About the Author

Alexander Lyon Macfie's publications include The Eastern Question (1988; 1996), The Straits Question (1993), Ataturk (1994), and The End of the Ottoman Empire (1998).