Sarah Flavel is Reader in Asian and Comparative Philosophy at Bath Spa University, UK.Russell Re Manning is Reader in Philosophy and Ethics at Bath Spa University, UK.Lydia Azadpour is a Ph.D. Researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

• Introduction: Different Differences in Identity, Lydia Azadpour, Sarah Flavel & Russell Re Manning (Bath Spa University, UK)1. Souls, Stars and Shadows, Stephen R. L. Clark ((Liverpool & Bristol Universities, UK)2. Confucian Philosophy as a Universal Approach to Civilized Living: A Contemporary Interpretation, Geir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland, Iceland)3. Realizing Virtues: Plato and Buddhism, Chiara Robbiano (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) & Shalini Sinha (University of Reading, UK)4. Application of Tradition in Gadamer and the Sameness-Otherness of Islamic Philosophy, Selami Varlik (Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkey)5. The Mind is More like Matter, the Body More Like the Form’: Geulincx Against Descartes (and the Scholastics) on the Sources of Difference in Minds, Michael Jaworzyn (KU Leuven University, Belgium)6. My Identity Differs: On Why I Am Not Myself in Light of Hume, Beauvoir, and Zen Buddhist Writings, Andrew Whitehead (Kennesaw State University, USA)7. Individual Identity and Cultural Practice Relationalism in Modern Protestant Theology, Harald Matern (Universitat Basel, Switzerland)8. One’s Other Self: Contradictory Self-Identity in Ueda’s Phenomenology of the Self, Raquel Bouso Garcia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)9. Events of Excess, Being and Existence in Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-Luc Marion’s Philosophies, Robert Luzar (Bath Spa University, UK)Bibliography Index

Not only is this a wonderful and provocative collection of some of the most thoughtful “intercultural” philosophers writing in English today, its cumulative effect challenges some of the standard myths by which we maintain the absolute separation of the “West” from its Other, the “East.” Philosophy itself is the clear winner from the debris of this untenable dualism.