Self As Body in Asian Theory and Practice (Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion)

By Roger T. Ames and Thomas P. Kasilis

Book Overview

Thomas P. Kasulis is Professor of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at The Ohio State University. He has been the Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago, a Japan Foundation Fellow at Osaka University, and Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard. He has also served as the President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. He is the author of Zen Action/Zen Person, and the editor and co-translator of The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, also published by SUNY Press. Roger T. Ames is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Hawaii and edits the journal, Philosophy East and West. He is the co-author of Thinking Through Confucius (with David L. Hall), and co-editor of Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (with J. Baird Callicott), both published by SUNY Press. Wimal Dissanayake is a research scholar in the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791410803
• ISBN13: 9780791410806
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.