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Eliot Deutsch (born J anuary 31, 1931) is a philosopher, teacher, and writer.
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He has made important
contributions to the understanding and appreciation of Eastern philosophies in the West through his many
works on comparative philosophy and aesthetics . Currently he is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at
the University of Hawaii .
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Accomplishments
3 Articles
4 Bibliography
5 References
Biography [edit]
After Deutsch received his doctorate from Columbia University he was an Associate Professor of
Philosophy from 1960 to 1967 and was a Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. In the summer of 1966 Deutsch was a visiting professor at the University of
Chicago. In 1967 Deutsch joined the University of Hawaii as Professor of Philosophy. He was the editor
(from 1967 to 1987) of the international journal Philosophy East and West, Director of the Sixth
Eastern Philosophers conference, as well as the past president of the Society for Asian and Comparative
Philosophy.
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Fall of 1985 Deutsch was at Harvard University as a visiting professor there. In 1987 until
1989 he was the Director as the Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference. From 1991 through 1996 he
held position as a Graduate Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii . Deutsch
was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall the University of Cambridge in England from J uly to December 1998
and was elected a Life Member in 1999. From 1967 through 2006 Professor Deutsch has been a Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii as well as spending some of those years as Chair.
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Deutsch is the author of 16 books, including; On Truth: An Ontological Theory; Advaita Vedanta: A
Philosophical Reconstruction; Studies in Comparative Aesthetics; Creative Being: The Crafting of
Person and World; Religion and Spirituality; Essays on the Nature of Art; and Persons and
Valuable Worlds.
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Deutsch also has many publications as well as been an invited lecturer at numerous
universities and colleges in Asia, Europe, and the Americas including Oxford, Lucknow University ,
Boston University, Fudan University (Shanghai ), Madras University , the University of Rajasthan ,
Nanjing University , and the University of Chicago.
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Professor Deutsch has been the recipient of
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Fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies , The American Council of Learned Societies
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a past president of the Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophy.
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Professor Deutsch recently was the recipient of the University of Hawaii
Regent's Medal of Distinction for exceptional contributions to his field.
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Currently Deutsch is retired and
living in Hawaii.
Accomplishments [edit]
Professor Deutsch attended the University of Wisconsin from 1948 to 1952 obtaining his Bachelors Degree
there. He attented the University of Chicago in 1952 and Harvard University from 1952 to 1953. He
completed his Ph.D. from 1956 to 60 at Columbia University.
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Professor Deutsch was awarded his first Fellowship in 1963 as a Faculty Fellow at the American Institute
of Indian Studies in India. From 1965 through 1967 he was a New York State Faculty Scholar in
International Studies. He was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Humanities from 1973 to 1974. In December 1975 the American Council of Learned Societies awarded
him a Travel Grant to attend World Congress of Philosophy in Delhi and a meeting of International
Society for Metaphysics. In 1984 he was Principal Investigator, Director, at the NEH Summer Institute in
Comparative Philosophy. The University of California at Santa Barbara awarded him Visiting Fellow for
the Interdisciplinary Center for the Humanities in May 1988. From 1991 to 1992 he was the Project
Director for "Alternative Rationalities" for the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities Grant. In 1994 he
was Principal Investigator and Director at the NEH Summer Institute in South Asian Culture and
Civilization. In October 2002 Professor Deutch was awarded the Degree of Vedanta Sudhara by The
International Congress of Vedanta. Deutsch was awarded the University of Hawaii's Highest Award, The
Regents Medal of Distinction, in J uly 2005.
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Articles [edit]
"Sri Aurobindo's Interpretation of Spiritual Experience: A Critique," International Philosophical Quarterly,
IV, 4 (Dec., 1964). Excerpted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by J ennifer Gariery (New
York: Gale Research, Inc., 1997)
"The Nature of Scripture," Vedanta Kesari, LI, 9 (J an., 1965).
"Karma as a 'Convenient Fiction' in Advaita Ved_nta," Philosophy East and West, XV, l (J an., 1965).
"The J ustification of Hindu Polytheism in Advaita Ved_nta," East West Review, I, 3 (Feb., 1965).
"_akti in Medieval Hindu Sculpture," J ournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XXIV, l (Fall, 1965).
"Levels of Being," Darshana International, V, 4 (Oct. 1965).
"The Self in Advaita Ved_nta," International Philosophical Quarterly, VI, l (March, 1966).
"Types of Philosophical Problems in Classical Vednta," abstract in Proceedings of Twenty Seventh
International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August, 1967.(Wiesbaden: Otto
Harrassowitz, 1971).
"Western Approaches to Comparative Philosophy," Proceedings of the Indian Philosophical Congress,
Banares, India, December, 1967.
"Aesthetics East and West: Tentative Conclusions and Unresolved Problems," Philosophy East and West,
XIX, 3 (J uly, 1969).
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"Introduction to Violence and Non Violence East and West," Philosophy East and West. XIX, 2 (April,
1969).
"Speaking About God," J ournal of Religious Studies (Punjabi University) I, l (Sept., 1969).
"Commentary on J . L. Mehta's 'Heidegger and the Comparison of Indian and Western Philosophy,'"
Philosophy East and West, XX, 3 (J uly, 1970).
"Philosophy and Freedom of Consciousness," in Philosophy: Theory and Practice, Proceedings of the
International Seminar on World Philosophy, edited by T. M. P. Mahadevan (Madras: The University of
Madras, 1974).
"Commentary on Dr. Fernand Brunner's 'Theory and Practice in the Evolution of Western Thought'," in
same.
"Vedanta and Ecology," Indian Philosophical Annual, Vol. 6, 1970. Centre of Advanced Study in
Philosophy, University of Madras.
"The Nature of Freedom," in same.
"The Mufti-Leveled Ontology of Advaita Ved_nta," in Studies in the Languages and Culture of South Asia,
edited by Edwin Gerow and Margery D. Land (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press,
1973).
"Some Reflections on Rasa", in Festschrift for Professor T. M. P. Mahadevan, edited by H. D. Lewis,
Madras, 1974.
"On the Concept of Art," J ournal of Chinese Philosophy, 3 (1976).
"Vidy_ and Avidy_, Proceedings: World Philosophy Congress, New Delhi, 1976.
"On Meaning," in Self, Knowledge and Freedom, edited by J . N. Mohanty and S. P. Banerjee (Calcutta:
World Press, 1978).
"A Reply to 'How to Help Advaita Ved_nta Refute Itself'," Insight: A J ournal of World Religions, II.2
(Winter 1977 78).
"Causality and Creativity," International Philosophical Quarterly, XVIII, no. l (March, 1978), and in Man
and Nature, edited by George F. McLean (Oxford University Press,1978).
"Reflections on Some Aspects of the Theory of Rasa," in Sanskrit Drama in Performance, edited by Rachel
van M. Baumer and J ames R. Brandon (University Press of Hawaii, 1981).
"A Radical Discontinuity in Being: A Dialogue," in Rationality and Philosophy, ed. by V. K. Bharadwaja
(New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, 1984).
"On Art and Religion," in Religious Pluralism, Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion
Series, edited by Leroy S. Rouner, (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame), 1984.
"The Bhagavad Git_," article for Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade, Macmillan, 1985.
"The Ontological Power of Speech," J ournal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 12, Fall, 1985.
"Knowing Religiously," in Knowing Religiously, edited by Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame: University of
Notre Dame Press, 1985). And in Philosophy, Religion, and Contemporary Life, edited by Leroy S.
Rouner and J ames R. Langford (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).
"Participation: The Metaphysical Grounding of Social Relations," in Philosophy, Society and Action
(Delhi, 1985). Translated into Chinese, in Philosophical Research, Beijing, no. 5., 1986.
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"A Metaphysical Grounding for Natural Reverence: East West," Environmental Ethics, Vol. 8, No. 4,
Winter 1986.
"Breugel and Ma Yan: Principles of Comparative Criticism," in A Selection of Famous Works on Western
Aesthetics of the Twentieth Century (Ershi shiji xifang meisue mingzhu xuan) Shanghai: Fudan University
Press, 1988); Spanish Translation, in Esteticas: Occidente Y Otras Culturas, (Malaga: Contrastes, 2005).
"Time and History: East and West," Radhakrishnan Centenary Volume. Indian Council of Philosophical
Research, 1990.
"Community as Ritual Participation", in On Community, edited by Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1991)
"The Concept of the Body," in Self as Body in Asian Thought and Practice, edited by Thomas P. Kasulis
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992) and in Phenomenology East and West: Essays in
Honor of J . N. Mohanty (Kluwer Academic Publishers and Motilal Banarsidass), 1993.
"On the Comparative Study of the Self." in Selves, People and Persons, edited by Leroy S. Rouner (Notre
Dame: Notre Dame University Press), 1992.
"The Person as Knower and Known," J ournal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. X, no. 1,
1993.
"Truth and Mythology," in Myths and Fictions, edited by Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein
(Leiden: E. J . Brill, 1993).
"Creative Friendship," in The Changing Face of Friendship, edited by Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
"Self-Deception: A Comparative Study" in Self and Deception, edited by Roger T. Ames and Vimal
Dissanayake (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1996).
"Outline of an Advaita Vednta Aesthetics," in Relativism, Suffering and Beyond, edited by P. Bilimoria
and J .N. Mohanty (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996).
"Face to Face: Crossing the Boundaries of Gender and Culture," University of Sidney, 1997.
"Loneliness and Solitude," in Loneliness, edited by Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1998).
"Comparative Aesthetics," in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Michael Kelly (ed) (Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press), 1998. Italian Translation in Il paesaggio dell'estetica (Universit di Siena, 1998);
Lithuania Translation in III, Vilnius.
"Eliot Deutsch Responds" in The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy,
edited by Roger T. Ames (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2000).
"Rationality and Tradition(s)," in The Empirical and the Transcendental: A Fusion of Horizons, edited by
Bina Gupta (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000).
"Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Philosophy of Art," in The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Library of
Living Philosophers, Volume XXVII, edited by Lewis E. Hahn, Randall E. Auxier, and Lucian W. Stone,
J r. (Chicago: Open Court Publishers, 2001).
Interpreting Artworks: Prolegomenon to a Cross-Cultural Philosophy in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Studies Hermeneutic, in Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics (Turin, Italy, Trauben,
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2001).
A Comparative Philosophy as Creative Philosophy, in American Philosophical Association Newsletter,
Vol. 02, Number 1, Fall 2002.
Foreword to Mariette Stepaniants, Introduction to Eastern Thought (Altamira Press, 2002).
A Comparative Philosophy: Past, Present, Future in Asianet Exchange, Vol. XI, No. 1 Fall 2003.
A Holy Otherness; Religious Differences Revisited, in The Stranger's Religion: Fascination and Fear,
edited by Anna Lnnstrm (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press), 2004.
A Memorial Tribute to Leroy Rouner, Philosophy East and West, Vol, 56, Number 3, J uly 2006.
Bibliography [edit]
The Bhagavad Gita (translator), ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1968)
Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction, (University of Hawaii Press, 1969)
Studies in Comparative Aesthetics, University of Hawaii Press , 1975)
On Truth: An Ontological Theory, University of Hawaii Press , 1979)
Personhood, Creativity, and Freedom, (University of Hawaii Press, 1982)
Interpreting Across Boundaries, (Motilal Banarsidass , 1989)
Culture and Modernity: East-West Philosophic Perspectives, (University of Hawaii Press , 1991)
A Companion to World Philosophies, (Wiley-Blackwell , 1991)
Religion and Spirituality, (State University of New York Press , 1995)
Essays on the Nature of Art, (State University of New York Press, 1996)
Introduction to World Philosophies, (Prentice Hall , 1996)
Classical Sociological Theory, (Blackwell Publishing Limited , 2002)
Persons and Valuable Worlds: A Global Philosophy, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
The Essential Vedanta: A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta, (World Wisdom, 2004)
Timeless in Time: Sri Ramana Maharshi, (World Wisdom, 2006)
Introduction to Asian Philosophy, (Prentice Hall , 2006)
The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation, (State University of New York Press, 2007)
In addition Deutsch has written over 100 articles and reviews for professional journals. His works have
been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and J apanese.
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