Embodiedness, Open-mindedness, and Eurocentrism: Diversifying Comparative and Cross-cultural Philosophy with Key Concepts of World Philosophies
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2025
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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© 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Key Concepts in World Philosophies, edited by Sarah Flavel and Chiara Robbiano, offers a comprehensive exploration of philosophies beyond the Western canon, particularly from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This review essay examines the book’s chief thematic clusters: embodiedness, open-mindedness, and Eurocentrism. Through forty-five chapters, the book challenges traditional notions of philosophy by emphasizing the embodied nature of philosophical inquiry, advocating for open-mindedness and flexibility in approaching diverse perspectives, and critiquing Eurocentric biases. The book constitutes an invaluable resource for diversifying and decolonizing the teaching of comparative and cross-cultural philosophy.
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Decolonization, Embodiedness, Eurocentrism, Open-mindedness, World Philosophies