Philosophy as a Transformative Practice: A Review of Leah Kalmanson's Cross-Cultural Existentialism [Book Review]

Philosophy East and West 72 (1):258-268 (2022)
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Abstract

Leah Kalmanson's Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought develops what the author calls 'speculative existentialism' by challenging the metaphysical assumptions behind the existential inquiry in the West. The author turns to East Asian thought—Ruism in particular—questioning the "problematic understanding of subjective interiority" that remains in European existentialism despite its efforts to subvert subject-object dualism. The author writes, "my book is ultimately about the radical existential vision of Ruism, a tradition that has, in general, received less attention than Buddhism in comparative existential work."1 A revised existentialism...

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