Schliesser E. (ed.) Neglected Classics of Philosophy. Volume 2

Oxford University Press, 2022. — 313 p.The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to make a case for their contemporary importance in an accessible and inviting way. The result - a successor to an earlier 2016 volume, also edited by Eric Schliesser - is an invitation to consider new ways of defining, and doing, philosophy. The works discussed here are written in a variety of literary styles, in different ages and intellectual cultures. Many contributors note the meta-philosophical features of the works, and how these can be salient today, and thus inspire reflection on the nature of philosophy and the varieties of roles it can play professionally and existentially. In particular, many of the chapters inspire reflection on the gendered, racial, and cultural patterns of exclusion in the development of the contemporary philosophical canon.Dedication
Acknowledgments
Author Biographies
Introduction
The Theogony and the Works and Days: The Beginnings of Philosophical Questioning in Hesiod
Zhuangzi
Vasubandhu’s Viṃśatikākārikā
Hōnen’s Senchaku-Shū
Sor Juana’s “Let us pretend I am happy”
Anton Wilhelm Amo: Treatise on the Art of Soberly and Accurately Philosophizing (1738)
On Mary Shepherd’s Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect
Ida B. Wells-​Barnett’s The Red Record
The de Lagunas’ Dogmatism and Evolution: Overcoming Modern Philosophy and Making Post-​Quinean Analytic Philosophy
B. R. Ambedkar on “Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development”
Civility, Silence, and Epistemic Labor in Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider
Ethics in Place and Time: Introducing Wub-​e-​ke-​niew’s We Have the Right to Exist: A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought
Index