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Philosophy: South & East Asia, Africa, Latin Amer.

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South & East Asia, Africa, Latin America

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General/Multiple

A companion to world philosophies. Ed. Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997.

SML (Starr & Philosophy Study Room), B121 C664X 1997

Short background pieces on Polynesian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist and African philosophy, followed by topical discussions and essays surveying contemporary developments.

Columbia companion to twentieth-century philosophies.  Ed. Constantin V. Boundas.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

SML (Philosophy Study Room), B804 .C558 2007.

Key concepts in Eastern philosophy. Oliver Leaman. London; New York: Routledge, 1999.

SML (Stacks), B121 L43 1999

The Rider encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber et al. London: Rider, 1989.

SML (Starr), BL1005 L4813 1989

Companion encyclopedia of Asian philosophy. Ed. Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam. London: New York: Routledge, 1997.

SML (Starr), Divinity Library (Trowbridge), B121 C66X 1997

Sections on Persian, Indian, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, and Islamic philsophy.

Indian

A concise dictionary of Indian philosophy: Sanskrit terms defined in English. John Grimes. New and rev. ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

SML (Starr), B131 G67 1996

Indian philosophy: a very short introduction.  Sue Hamilton.  Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Bass (Stacks), B131 H359 2001


Indian philosophy A-Z. Christopher Bartley. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

SML (Stacks), Divinity Library (Trowbridge), B131 .B325X 2005

East Asian

Encyclopedia of Asian philosophy. Ed. Oliver Leaman. London; New York: Routledge, 2001.

SML (Starr), B121 E53X 2001

Encyclopedia of Chinese philosophy. Ed. Antonio S. Cua. New York: Routledge, 2002.

SML (Starr), B126 E496 2002

History of Chinese philosophy.  Ed. Bo Mou. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

SML (Stacks), B5231 .R68X 2009

Introduction to Chinese philosophy.  Karyn L. Lai.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Bass (Stacks), B5231 .L34X 2008

African

African philosophy: an anthology.  Ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze. Cambridge, MA; Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

SML (Stacks), B5305 A36X 1998

African philosophy: new and traditional perspectives.  Ed. Lee M. Brown.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

SML (Stacks), B5305 .A374X 2004

"A collection of essays that seek to provide accurate and well-developed characterizations of the epistemological and metaphysical concerns that shaped the conceptual languages and philosophical thought of sub-Saharan Africa."

Companion to African philosophy.  Ed. Kwasi Wiredu.  Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.

Divinity Library (Trowbridge), SML (Philosophy Study Room), B5305 .C66X 2004

Introduction to Africana philosophy.  Lewis R. Gordon.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

SML (Stacks), B5305 .G67X 2008

Latin American

Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Ed. Susana Nuccetelli et al. Chichester, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2010.

SML (Stacks), B1001 .C65X 2010

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