In this provocative historiography, Peter ok. J. Park offers a penetrating account of a very important interval within the improvement of philosophy as a tutorial self-discipline. in the course of those many years, a couple of eu philosophers encouraged by way of Immanuel Kant started to formulate the background of philosophy as a march of growth from the Greeks to Kant—a family tree that supplanted latest debts starting in Egypt or Western Asia and at a time whilst ecu curiosity in Sanskrit and Persian literature was once flourishing. no longer with no debate, those traditions have been finally deemed outdoors the scope of philosophy and relegated to the learn of faith. Park uncovers this debate and recounts the advance of an exclusionary canon of philosophy within the many years of the overdue eighteenth and early 19th centuries. To what quantity was once this exclusion of Africa and Asia end result of the the scientization of philosophy? To what volume used to be it end result of the racism?

This publication comprises the main wide description to be had at any place of Joseph-Marie de Gérando’s Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, Friedrich Schlegel’s lectures at the historical past of philosophy, Friedrich Ast’s and Thaddä Anselm Rixner’s systematic integration of Africa and Asia into the heritage of philosophy, and the talk among G. W. F. Hegel and the theologian August Tholuck over “pantheism.”

“Africa, Asia, and the background of Philosophy is an interesting learn of racism and Eurocentrism in eighteenth century works on heritage of philosophy.” — Journal of the Society for modern suggestion and the Islamicate World

“Now, ultimately, now we have a great account of … the exclusion of Asian and African texts from the canon of global philosophy … an acute, severe narrative that are meant to strength philosophers to reconsider disreputable pillars in their tradition.” — Chronicle Review

“What makes Park’s quantity particular is the author’s proactive procedure … Park takes sedulous care in exposing cracks within the heritage of philosophy’s starting place, and digs deeper to check how each one crack is attached … in his reconsideration of the historical past of philosophy, Park heavily engages the racism nonetheless to be came upon at paintings in philosophy today.” — Radical Philosophy

“Africa, Asia, and the heritage of Philosophy is a welcome boost to a ignored sector within the background of principles. Philosophy has lengthy suffered from exclusions that hold us from absolutely appreciating the contributions to our box from Africa and Asia. Park’s ebook uncovers the various resources of philosophy’s exclusionary practices. The historic aspect is impressive.” — Elizabeth Millán, writer of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy

Peter okay. J. Park is Assistant Professor of ancient experiences on the college of Texas at Dallas. he's the coeditor (with Douglas T. McGetchin and Damodar SarDesai) of Sanskrit and ‘Orientalism’: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750–1958.