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Synopsis
It was the editorial eye of Eliot Deutsch that made the journal Philosophy East and West the voice of comparative philosophy within the Western academy, challenging the entrenched provincialism of Anglo-American philosophy. In these essays, Deutsch's critics both praise and attack him, and he offers his thoughtful responses.
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Comparative philosophers discuss and comment on their contemporary Deutsch's ideas in ten original essays. He responds. They engage such topics as mysticism and aesthetics, truth, ontological theory, the traditional text in Indian philosophy, the spiritual value of suffering, the philosophy of religion, freedom and inequality, and self-cultivation as education embodying humanity.