In recent years, European and American historians of Asia have spoken increasingly of the need to avoid Euro-centric views of Asian history. The need, they have observed, is to write from an Asian point of view. The history written by European colonial officials about native peoples and imperial governments has obviously had its day. Although there were some notable exceptions, such authors wer…
Tr torical study which would be intelligible themselves within their own limits of space and time, without reference to extraneous historical events. The search for these self-contained units led us to find them in Societies of the species we called Civilizations, and so far we have been working on the assumption that a comparative study of the geneses, growths, breakdowns, breakdowns, and disi…
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De titel, met zijn toestemming ontleend aan, een bundel van de dichter Binnendijk, is nochtans geen literair ornament. Niet alleen, dat ik er het concretiserend lidwoord aan heb toege- voegd, maar ik acht er, wat meer zegt, ook de gedachte in uit gedrukt, waaromheen deze studies en critieken zich min of meer kristalliseren tot een, zij het onafgerond geheel. Deze gedachte n.l., dat het verleden…
This is a book about the world views of men in our Western tradition, the ideas they have held and still hold on the Big Questions-cosmological questions, which ask whether the universe makes sense in terms of human capacity to comprehend and, if so, what kind of sense; theological and metaphysical questions, which ask further questions about purpose and design of the universe, and about man's …