R&L Logo R&L Logo
  • GENERAL
    • Browse by Subjects
    • New Releases
    • Coming Soon
    • Chases's Calendar
  • ACADEMIC
    • Textbooks
    • Browse by Course
    • Instructor's Copies
    • Monographs & Research
    • Reference
  • PROFESSIONAL
    • Education
    • Intelligence & Security
    • Library Services
    • Business & Leadership
    • Museum Studies
    • Music
    • Pastoral Resources
    • Psychotherapy
  • FREUD SET
Cover Image
Hardback
share of facebook share on twitter
Add to GoodReads

Exile and Otherness

The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides

Ilana Maymind

In Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides, Ilana Maymind argues that Shinran (1173–1263), the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu), and Maimonides (1138–1204), a Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, and physician, were both deeply affected by their conditions of exile as shown in the construction of their ethics. By juxtaposing the exilic experiences of two contemporaries who are geographically and culturally separated and yet share some of the same concerns, this book expands the boundaries of Shin Buddhist studies and Jewish studies. It demonstrates that the integration into a new environment for Shinran and the creative mixture of cultures for Maimonides allowed them to view certain issues from the position of empathic outsiders. Maymind demonstrates that the biographical experiences of these two thinkers who exhibit sensitivity to the neglected and suffering others, resonate with conditions of exile and diasporic living in pluralistic societies that define the lives of many individuals, communities, and societies in the twenty-first century.

  • Details
  • Details
  • Author
  • Author
  • TOC
  • TOC
  • Reviews
  • Reviews
Lexington Books
Pages: 190 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-7458-7 • Hardback • June 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
Subjects: Philosophy / Eastern, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy, Religion / Eastern
Ilana Maymind, PhD, teaches in the department of religious studies at Chapman University.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Introducing Shinran and Maimonides

Chapter 2: Shinran and Maimonides: Exile and Tolerance

Chapter 3: Shinran and Maimonides: Exile and the “Other”

Chapter 4: What Can We Learn from the Past

Bibliography

About the Author

"A timely and yet history-rich reflection on the nature of exile and the refugee experience, Maymind’s book is a keenly conducted exercise in drawing insights interculturally about the origins and effortful perfecting of empathy. Engaged through the lenses of Shinran’s and Maimonides’ biographies of exile, the concept of human nature is shown to have an often unsettling depth of relational complexity, which Maymind then skillfully weaves into broader reflections on the ethical necessity of exile from familiar patterns of presupposition and prejudice. Exile and Otherness builds a case for embracing strangeness in the pursuit, not simply of greater tolerance for difference, but of achieving ever greater qualities of mutual inclusion."--Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center
— Peter D. Hershock, Asian Studies Development Program


Students of religion who are uncertain what is to be gained by comparing figures so seemingly disparate as Shinran and Maimonides will find provocative answers in Ilana Maymind’s Exile and Otherness. By juxtaposing the Japanese and Jewish thinkers, this highly original text evokes insights and questions about each that independent treatments would never elicit; and, moreover, readers without special interests in either of these seminal philosophers will be rewarded with more general observations about the ethics of exile and about the ways in which implicit theories of human nature (which she makes explicit) impinge on every aspect of their respective oeuvres. Along with the ample and carefully documented particulars, Maymind thereby also provides us a compelling demonstration of the continuing value of comparative religious studies.
— Lindsay Jones, The Ohio State University


A gripping exploration into the lives of two exiles: Shinran, a Buddhist monk from Japan, and Maimonides, a Jewish scholar from Islamic Spain. All they have in common is the experience of exile, and yet Ilana Maymind created an intricate comparative study that will appeal to philosophers and researchers of exiles, in particular in connection with the ethical implications of diasporic lives and the construction of hybrid identities. A truly compelling narrative.
— Tamara Albertini, University of Hawai‘i


Exile and Otherness

The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides

Cover Image
Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • In Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides, Ilana Maymind argues that Shinran (1173–1263), the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu), and Maimonides (1138–1204), a Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, and physician, were both deeply affected by their conditions of exile as shown in the construction of their ethics. By juxtaposing the exilic experiences of two contemporaries who are geographically and culturally separated and yet share some of the same concerns, this book expands the boundaries of Shin Buddhist studies and Jewish studies. It demonstrates that the integration into a new environment for Shinran and the creative mixture of cultures for Maimonides allowed them to view certain issues from the position of empathic outsiders. Maymind demonstrates that the biographical experiences of these two thinkers who exhibit sensitivity to the neglected and suffering others, resonate with conditions of exile and diasporic living in pluralistic societies that define the lives of many individuals, communities, and societies in the twenty-first century.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 190 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-4985-7458-7 • Hardback • June 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    Subjects: Philosophy / Eastern, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy, Religion / Eastern
Author
Author
  • Ilana Maymind, PhD, teaches in the department of religious studies at Chapman University.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Contents

    Preface

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: Introducing Shinran and Maimonides

    Chapter 2: Shinran and Maimonides: Exile and Tolerance

    Chapter 3: Shinran and Maimonides: Exile and the “Other”

    Chapter 4: What Can We Learn from the Past

    Bibliography

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • "A timely and yet history-rich reflection on the nature of exile and the refugee experience, Maymind’s book is a keenly conducted exercise in drawing insights interculturally about the origins and effortful perfecting of empathy. Engaged through the lenses of Shinran’s and Maimonides’ biographies of exile, the concept of human nature is shown to have an often unsettling depth of relational complexity, which Maymind then skillfully weaves into broader reflections on the ethical necessity of exile from familiar patterns of presupposition and prejudice. Exile and Otherness builds a case for embracing strangeness in the pursuit, not simply of greater tolerance for difference, but of achieving ever greater qualities of mutual inclusion."--Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center
    — Peter D. Hershock, Asian Studies Development Program


    Students of religion who are uncertain what is to be gained by comparing figures so seemingly disparate as Shinran and Maimonides will find provocative answers in Ilana Maymind’s Exile and Otherness. By juxtaposing the Japanese and Jewish thinkers, this highly original text evokes insights and questions about each that independent treatments would never elicit; and, moreover, readers without special interests in either of these seminal philosophers will be rewarded with more general observations about the ethics of exile and about the ways in which implicit theories of human nature (which she makes explicit) impinge on every aspect of their respective oeuvres. Along with the ample and carefully documented particulars, Maymind thereby also provides us a compelling demonstration of the continuing value of comparative religious studies.
    — Lindsay Jones, The Ohio State University


    A gripping exploration into the lives of two exiles: Shinran, a Buddhist monk from Japan, and Maimonides, a Jewish scholar from Islamic Spain. All they have in common is the experience of exile, and yet Ilana Maymind created an intricate comparative study that will appeal to philosophers and researchers of exiles, in particular in connection with the ethical implications of diasporic lives and the construction of hybrid identities. A truly compelling narrative.
    — Tamara Albertini, University of Hawai‘i


ALSO AVAILABLE

  • Cover image for the book Marion, Love, and Nihilism: A Dialogue with Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Nishitani
  • Cover image for the book Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi
  • Cover image for the book Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: A Reader
  • Cover image for the book Humane Liberality: A Confucian Proposal
  • Cover image for the book Korean Confucianism: The Philosophy and Politics of Toegye and Yulgok
  • Cover image for the book The Martial Arts Studies Reader
  • Cover image for the book The Early Confucian Philosophy of Agency: Virtuous Conduct
  • Cover image for the book Zhang Zai's Philosophy of Qi: A Practical Understanding
  • Cover image for the book Living Confucianisms: Strategies for Optimizing Harmony
  • Cover image for the book Confucius: The Man and the Way of Gongfu
  • Cover image for the book Harmony in Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Introduction
  • Cover image for the book Traditional Korean Philosophy: Problems and Debates
  • Cover image for the book Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts
  • Cover image for the book Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame: Shame of Shamelessness
  • Cover image for the book Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical India: Nagarjuna, Jayarasi, and Sri Harsa
  • Cover image for the book Contemporary Korean Political Thought and Park Chung-hee
  • Cover image for the book Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture: Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
  • Cover image for the book Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues
  • Cover image for the book Exploring the Heart Sutra
  • Cover image for the book The Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism
  • Cover image for the book The Purpose of Life: An Eastern Philosophical Vision
  • Cover image for the book Postmodern Ethics, Emptiness, and Literature: Encounters between East and West
  • Cover image for the book Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care: Integrating Relational Self, Power, and Democracy
  • Cover image for the book Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Approach
  • Cover image for the book Buddhisms and Deconstructions
  • Cover image for the book The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea: The Chonon (Testament) by Chong Chedu (Hagok)
  • Cover image for the book Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account
  • Cover image for the book Confucianism, Law, and Democracy in Contemporary Korea
  • Cover image for the book Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics
  • Cover image for the book Ham Sok Hon's Ssial Cosmopolitan Vision
  • Cover image for the book Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese – American Encounters
  • Cover image for the book Buddhist Responses to Globalization
  • Cover image for the book Introduction to Eastern Thought
  • Cover image for the book Manifestos for World Thought
  • Cover image for the book Marion, Love, and Nihilism: A Dialogue with Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Nishitani
  • Cover image for the book Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi
  • Cover image for the book Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: A Reader
  • Cover image for the book Humane Liberality: A Confucian Proposal
  • Cover image for the book Korean Confucianism: The Philosophy and Politics of Toegye and Yulgok
  • Cover image for the book The Martial Arts Studies Reader
  • Cover image for the book The Early Confucian Philosophy of Agency: Virtuous Conduct
  • Cover image for the book Zhang Zai's Philosophy of Qi: A Practical Understanding
  • Cover image for the book Living Confucianisms: Strategies for Optimizing Harmony
  • Cover image for the book Confucius: The Man and the Way of Gongfu
  • Cover image for the book Harmony in Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Introduction
  • Cover image for the book Traditional Korean Philosophy: Problems and Debates
  • Cover image for the book Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts
  • Cover image for the book Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame: Shame of Shamelessness
  • Cover image for the book Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical India: Nagarjuna, Jayarasi, and Sri Harsa
  • Cover image for the book Contemporary Korean Political Thought and Park Chung-hee
  • Cover image for the book Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture: Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
  • Cover image for the book Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues
  • Cover image for the book Exploring the Heart Sutra
  • Cover image for the book The Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism
  • Cover image for the book The Purpose of Life: An Eastern Philosophical Vision
  • Cover image for the book Postmodern Ethics, Emptiness, and Literature: Encounters between East and West
  • Cover image for the book Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care: Integrating Relational Self, Power, and Democracy
  • Cover image for the book Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Approach
  • Cover image for the book Buddhisms and Deconstructions
  • Cover image for the book The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea: The Chonon (Testament) by Chong Chedu (Hagok)
  • Cover image for the book Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account
  • Cover image for the book Confucianism, Law, and Democracy in Contemporary Korea
  • Cover image for the book Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics
  • Cover image for the book Ham Sok Hon's Ssial Cosmopolitan Vision
  • Cover image for the book Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese – American Encounters
  • Cover image for the book Buddhist Responses to Globalization
  • Cover image for the book Introduction to Eastern Thought
  • Cover image for the book Manifestos for World Thought
facebook icon twitter icon instagram icon linked in icon NEWSLETTERS
ABOUT US
  • Mission Statement
  • Employment
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility Statement
CONTACT
  • Company Directory
  • Publicity and Media Queries
  • Rights and Permissions
  • Textbook Resource Center
AUTHOR RESOURCES
  • Royalty Contact
  • Production Guidelines
  • Manuscript Submissions
ORDERING INFORMATION
  • Rowman & Littlefield
  • National Book Network
  • Ingram Publisher Services UK
  • Special Sales
  • International Sales
  • eBook Partners
  • Digital Catalogs
IMPRINTS
  • Rowman & Littlefield
  • Lexington Books
  • Hamilton Books
  • Applause Books
  • Amadeus Press
  • Backbeat Books
  • Bernan
  • Hal Leonard Books
  • Limelight Editions
  • Co-Publishing Partners
  • Globe Pequot
  • Down East Books
  • Falcon Guides
  • Gooseberry Patch
  • Lyons Press
  • Muddy Boots
  • Pineapple Press
  • TwoDot Books
  • Stackpole Books
PARTNERS
  • American Alliance of Museums
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • Brookings Institution Press
  • Center for Strategic & International Studies
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
  • Fortress Press
  • The Foundation for Critical Thinking
  • Lehigh University Press
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Other Partners...