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List of contents
Introduction: Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters? Part I: Relevance of Confucian Ethics for Our Time 1. Confucian Role Ethics, Roger T. Ames 2. A Theory of Truthfulness (Cheng) in Classical Confucian Philosophy, Chung-ying Cheng 3. Why Does the Book of Rites Still Matter in Contemporary China? A Case Study of the Relevance of Tian Di 天地to the Age of Globalization, Xinzhong Yao 4. Moral Luck and Moral Responsibility: Wang Yangming on the Confucian Problem of Evil, Yong Huang Part II: Mutual Empowerment of Chinese and Western Thought 5. Responsive Virtuosity: A Classical Chinese Buddhist Contribution to Contemporary Conversations of Freedom, Peter Hershock 6 .Translatability, Strangification and Common Intelligibility, Vincent Shen 7. Confucian Exegesis, Hermeneutic Theory, and Comparative Thought, On-cho Ng 8. Spontaneity and Reflection, Richard Shusterman Part III: Modern Illuminations of Ancient Wisdom 9. Chinese Philosophy’s Hybrid Identity, John Makeham 10. 'Knowing, Feeling, and Active Ignorance: Methodological Reflection on the Study of Chinese Philosophy, Carine Defoort 11. Why the Yijing (Classic of Changes) Matters in an Age of Globalization, Richard J. Smith 12. Understanding Zen/Chan in the Context of Globalization, Ming Dong Gu 13. Afterword: Comments and Reflections by An ‘Outsider’, J. Hillis Miller
About the author
Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. His recent publications include Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Post-colonialism (2013) and Translating China for Western Readers: Reflective, Critical, Practical Essays (editor, 2015).
Summary
Written by a team of international scholars, this book offers an interdisciplinary study of pre-modern Chinese philosophy. Discussing the relevance of traditional Chinese philosophy for the global age, it takes a comparative approach, analysing ancient Chinese thought in relation to Western and postmodernist theories.
