Comparing India and the West

作者:
S.N. Balagangadhara
作者单位:
Universiteit Gent
摘要:
During the last two decades, I have been pursuing an unorthodox way of studying cultural differences, focusing mainly on the Indian and the western cultures. Because I believe that one can answer questions about the circumscription of the words ‘Indian’ and ‘western’ cultures satisfactorily (Balangangadhara, 1994), I will assume their intelligibility in what follows. In this paper, I want to raise a rather intriguing problem about comparing these two cultures. I shall do that without looking at other approaches to the issue and in the form of an argument. In order to come to the point quickly, let me make use of Said’s 'Orientalism.'
语种:
EN
DOI:
10.16995/ane.228
来源期刊:
The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts
出版商:
Open Library of Humanities
年,卷(期):
2008;16(1):57-63