Overview
- Presents women philosophers from non-Western traditions
- Gives clear and engaging account of the women's lives and their context
- Features excerpts of their writings
Part of the book series: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS, volume 19)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
Circa 2300 BCE
777–876 CE
Circa 1130–Circa 1160
Nana Asma’u of Nigeria 1793–1864Keywords
About this book
This book presents the views of 22 women philosophers from outside the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian worlds. These eminent thinkers are from Mesopotamia, India, Tibet, China, Korea, Japan,
Australia, America, the Philippines and Nigeria. Six philosophers, the earliest of whom predates the Greek pre-Socratics by two thousand years, lived at “the dawn of philosophy”; another six from late Antiquity through the Classical period; five more taught and wrote during the Middle Ages up to the Age of Exploration, and yet five others were active during the modern period to the mid-twentieth century. Most belonged to major philosophical traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zen, or Sufism. The chapters of the book describe the life and views of the philosophers, outline the fundamental features of their respective schools, and contain translations of their writings. The book is intended for scholars of philosophy and women’s studies who wish to expand their knowledge ofnon-Western philosophical traditions and is ideally suited for undergraduate education. Comprehensive multilingual bibliographies of carefully documented sources offer scholars many promising resources for further research.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Therese Boos Dykeman, independent scholar and retired adjunct professor, has published several texts on American and Western women philosophers from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Her most recent publication, Rhetoric at the Non-Substantialistic Turn: The East-West Coin (2018), provides a theory based on Field-Being philosophy for understanding rhetoric from both Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives. She served as president of the Center for Independent Study and serves on the board of the Society for the Study of Women Philosophers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women Philosophers from Non-western Traditions: The First Four Thousand Years
Editors: Mary Ellen Waithe, Therese Boos Dykeman
Series Title: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28563-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28562-2Published: 03 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28565-3Due: 05 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28563-9Published: 02 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2523-8760
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8779
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 494
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Feminist Theology, Philosophical Traditions