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Volume 28 2021

Review: The Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought

July 26, 2021 buddhistethics
ISSN 1076-9005
Volume 28, 2021

Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought. By Leah Kalmanson. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 194 pp., ISBN 978-1-350-14001-1 (hardback), $115.00.

Reviewed by Nathan R. B. Loewen

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