Peter K. J. Park is Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the coeditor (with Douglas T. McGetchin and Damodar SarDesai) of Sanskrit and 'Orientalism': Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Kantian School and the Consolidation of Modern Historiography of Philosophy
2. The Birth of Comparative History of Philosophy: Joseph-Marie de Gérando's Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie
3. India in Friedrich Schlegel's Comparative History of Philosophy
4. The Exclusion of Africa and Asia from the History of Philosophy: The Formation of the Kantian Position
5. Systematic Inclusion of Africa and Asia under Absolute Idealism: Friedrich Ast's and Thaddä Anselm Rixner's Histories of Philosophy
6. Absolute Idealism Reverts to the Kantian Position: Hegel's Exclusion of Africa and Asia
7. The Comparative History of Philosophy in August Tholuck's Polemic against Hegel
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index