Douglas L. Berger is Professor of Global and Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is author of The Veil of Maya: Schopenhauer’s System and Early Indian Thought (2004) and Encounters of Mind: Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought (2015), and co-editor, with JeeLoo Liu, of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (2014).
This book is a result of many years of sustained thought on intercultural philosophical issues across several traditions. Berger's humane and sensitive scholarship, broad sympathies, and wide understanding are everywhere evident. This is a book from which there is much to learn for all those committed to a global future for philosophy. * Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Fellow of the British Academy, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK * What is unique in Berger's pellucid but provocative, erudite but elegant, argument-rich yet accessible philosophical essays is a four-dimensional crossing of boundaries: between Indian, Chinese, and European philosophies, between epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, between distinct traditions of Brahminical (Nyaya and Vedanta) and Buddhist philosophies, and between analytical and continental styles of philosophy. Berger's 'bridge-work' in philosophy will make a difference because he never loses sight of the internal differences among each of the traditions or schools. * Arindam Chakrabarti, Lenney Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, USA *