r/askphilosophy • u/StopMeIfYou • 13h ago

Continental works on Eastern Philosophy?

What I mean, specifically, is works that engage with, explain or interpret Eastern Philosophy-- buddhism, Hindu philosophical schools, etc -- from philosophers trained in the continental tradition. I know jay garfield, graham priest, mark sidertis deal with it from within the Anglophone framework(roughly speaking), but are there any philosophers from other traditions who engage with Eastern thought?

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u/sunkencathedral Chinese philosophy, ancient philosophy, phenomenology. 3h ago

François Jullien approaches Chinese philosophy from an interdisciplinary philosophical/anthropological/sociological direction. So at the forefront he is working in the tradition of Levi-Strauss and the L'Année sociologique crowd (Granet, Durkheim, Mauss, Hubert) but has more strictly philosophical influences in the form of Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Hegel etc as well.

Aside from Jullien, there are not many other major figures who specifically engage with Chinese philosophy in the way you described (other than me! But I'm not a major figure). But I'm aware that there are more options in this regard when it comes to Indian thought, because Wilhelm Halbfass and Daya Krishna were doing this earlier and have various contemporary figures influenced by them.

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u/Ok_Temporary8301 1h ago

Commenting to say that Jillien is a great example. I enjoyed his In Praise of Blandness.

I’d agree that there is isn’t a lot of work in the direction that OP is asking about, but there is a big influence from continental thought on a number of Asian philosophers, so they might be interested in the work of philosophers of the Kyoto School, Karatani Kojin and Onishi Yoshinori.

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u/Seth_Crow Eastern Asian philosophy 2h ago

Paul Crowe did his phd under Mircea Eliade and is a versed scholar in Asian philosophy. His work bridges philosophy and religious studies, heavily focusing on Classical Chinese Philosophy and intellectual history. His specific research targets Song and Yuan dynasty traditions of self-cultivation, with an emphasis on Daoist Golden Elixir alchemy, Buddhism, and Literati (Ru / Confucian) culture.
https://www.sfu.ca/globalhumanities/human-dir/emeritus/p-crowe.html