This book focuses on traditions and individuals, religion, culture, reinforcing individual and cultural creativity. It brings specific Eastern and Western perspectives into a dynamic, comparative relation and emphasizes growing sense of interrelatedness and interdependency.

Preface -- Introduction -- Multiple Asian and Western Perspectives -- Social Constructions of Self: Some Asian, Marxist, and Feminist Critiques of Dominant Western Views of Self -- How Universal Is Psychoanalysis? The Self in India, Japan, and the United States -- Chinese and Western Perspectives -- Ethics, Relativism, and the Self -- Classical Confucian and Contemporary Feminist Perspectives on the Self: Some Parallels and Their Implications -- Buddho-Taoist and Western Metaphysics of the Self -- Indian and Western Perspectives -- Reducing Concern with Self: Parfit and the Ancient Buddhist Schools -- Sartre and Samkhya-Yoga on Self -- Japanese and Western Perspectives -- Nietzsche and Nishitani on Nihilism and Tradition -- Views of Japanese Selfhood: Japanese and Western Perspectives

Douglas Allen is professor of philosophy at the University of Maine . He is the author of Structure and Creativity in Religion; Mircea Eliade: An Annotated Bibliography (with Dennis Doeing); Mircea Eliade et le phenomene religieux; Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States, and the War (coedited with Ngo Vinh Long and published by WestviewPress); and Religion and Political Conflict in South Asia. He is also an editor of Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and has received Fulbright and Smithsonian Institution grants to teach and study in India. Ashok K. Malhotra is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Oneonta . Douglas Allen is professor of philosophy at the University of Maine. He is the author of Structure and Creativity in Religion;Mircea Eliade: An Annotated Bibliography (with Dennis Doeing); Mircea Eliade et le phenomene religieux;Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States, and the War (coedited with Ngo Vinh Long and published by WestviewPress); and Religion and Political Conflict in South Asia. He is also an editor of Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and has received Fulbright and Smithsonian Institution grants to teach and study in India. Ashok K. Malhotra is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Oneonta.