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'Thinking From The Han: Self, Truth and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture' by David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames is reviewed.

Ethnophilosophy in the African Philosophical Canon -- The Perennial Challenge: Transcending the Universalism-Particularism Divide -- Transcending the Universalism-Particularism Divide -- The Challenge of Consolationism -- The Consolationist System -- On God and Nature -- Homo Melancholicus -- Cross-cultural and Comparative Philosophy as Moral Conversation -- Consolation Philosophy's Challenge to German Philosophy and Western Existentialist Thought -- The Intellectual Love of God in a Comparative Context.

Are American colleges and universities failing their students by refusing to teach the philosophical traditions of China, India, Africa, and other non-Western cultures? This biting and provocative critique of American higher education says yes. Even though we live in an increasingly multicultural world, most philosophy departments stubbornly insist that only Western philosophy is real philosophy and denigrate everything outside the European canon. In Taking Back Philosophy, Bryan W. Van Norden lambastes academic philosophy for its Eurocentrism, insularity, and complicity with nationalism and issues a ringing call to make our educational institutions live up to their cosmopolitan ideals.