📚 Comparative Philosophy

Books with comparative philosophy on their catalogue record, first published between 1867 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject comparative philosophy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,077 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Chips from a German workshop	F. Max Müller	1867	17
	The supreme identity	Alan Watts	1950	16
	Psychotherapy, East and West	Alan Watts	1961	16
	The meeting of East and West	F. S. C. Northrop	1946	8
	A comparative history of ideas	Hajime Nakamura	1986	8
	Introduction to comparative philosophy	P.T. Raju	1962	6
	Comparative philosophy	Archie J. Bahm	1977	6
	Le moine et le philosophe	Jean François Revel	1998	6
	Mystical experience	Ben-ʿAmi Sharfshṭain	1973	5
	Zen and Western thought	Masao Abe	1984	5
	Nonduality	David Loy	1988	5
	Interpreting across boundaries	Gerald James Larson	1988	5
	Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo	Graham Mayeda	2006	5
	Grub mthaʼi rnam bśad	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	2009	5
	Geschichte der Sanskrit-Philologie und indischen Altertumskunde	Ernst Windisch	1917	4
	World cultures and world religions	H. Kraemer	1960	4
	East-West understanding of man	V. Narayan Karan Reddy	1974	4
	Relational Hermeneutics	Paul Fairfield	2018	4
	Wittgenstein and Marx. Marx and Wittgenstein	Fabio Sulpizio	2021	4
	The Tao of science	R. G. H. Siu	1957	3
	La Perspective métaphysique	Georges Vallin	1958	3
	The concept of man	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1960	3
	Studies in East-West philosophy	Gummaraju Srinivasan	1974	3
	An evaluation of the Vedāntic critique of Buddhism	Gregory Joseph Darling	2007	3
	Doing philosophy comparatively	Tim Connolly	2015	3
	Wisdom and Philosophy	Hans-Georg Moeller	2016	3
	The Tao of science	Siu Ralph Gun Hoy	1957	2
	Philosophical systems	Everett Wesley Hall	1960	2
	Eastern wisdom and Western thought	Purvezji Jamshedji Saher	1969	2
	İslâm mütefekkirleri ile garp mütefekkirleri arasında mukayese	İzmirli İsmail Hakkı	1973	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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