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  • Experiments in Mystical Atheism

    Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond

    by Brook Ziporyn ...
    A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism.Western philosophy is stuck in an irresolvable conflict between two approaches to the spiritual malaise of our times: either we need more God (the "turn to religion") or less religion (the New Atheism). In this book, Brook Ziporyn proposes an alternative that avoids both totalizing theomania and atomizing reductionism ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daodejing

    by Laozi ...
    Translated by Brook Ziporyn ...
    A transformative new edition of Taoism’s central text that overturns its reputation for calming, gnomic wisdom, revealing instead a work of “philosophical dynamite.”Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent explicators of Eastern religions in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Formulating a Minimalist Morality for a New Planetary Order

    Alternative Cultural Perspectives

    by Roger T. Ames, Roger T. Ames, Michael Walzer, Owen Flanagan, Dr. Feng Zhang, Baogang He, Amita Chatterjee, May Sim0, J. Baird Callicott1, Oliver Leaman2, Sun Xiangchen3, Xiaoyu Lu4, Hans-Georg Moeller5, Brook Ziporyn6, Jin Y. Park7, Vrinda Dalmiya8, Workineh Kelbessa9, David B. Wong0, Wang Hui1, Albert Welter2, James Hankins3 ...
    Series series Confucian Cultures
    The Westphalian model of international relations has given us a zero-sum game of winners and losers that has proven to be ineffective in addressing the pressing issues of our times. Philosopher Zhao Tingyang has argued that by conceptualizing international relations from the planetary perspective of tianxia, we can develop a sense of “worldness” that at once acknowledges the plurality of moral ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Freedom's Frailty

    Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzi

    by Christine Abigail L. Tan ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    This book starts with the radical premise that the most coherent way to read the Zhuangzi is through Guo Xiang (d. 312 CE), the classic Daoist text's first and most important commentator, and that the best way to read Guo Xiang is politically. Offering an investigation of the notions of causality, self, freedom, and its political implications, the book provides a comprehensive account of freedom ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism

    by Gereon Kopf, Michael P. Berman, David Brubaker, Jay Goulding, Hyong-hyo Kim, Shigenori Nagatomo, Carl Olson, Bernard Stevens, Funaki Toru0, Brook Ziporyn1, Gerald Cipriani2, Glen A. Mazis3 ...
    Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Being and Ambiguity

    Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism

    by Brook Ziporyn ...
    Being and Ambiguity is a brilliant work of philosophy, filled with insights, jokes, and topical examples. Professor Ziporyn draws on the works of such Western thinkers as Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, and Hegel, but develops his main argument from Tiantai school of Chinese Buddhism. This important work introduces Tiantai Buddhism to the reader and demonstrates its relevance to profound ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Brook Ziporyn, Stephen C. Walker ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy features more than 40 chapter-length introductions to the concepts, claims, and arguments that animate the Chinese philosophical tradition. Taking a topic-by-topic rather than text-by-text approach, this Companion aims at helping contemporary Anglophone readers access the philosophical riches of the Chinese tradition by balancing close analysis with ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Beyond Oneness and Difference

    Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents

    by Brook Ziporyn ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Continues the author's inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.Beyond Oneness and Difference considers the development of one of the key concepts of Chinese intellectual history, Li. A grasp of the strange history of this term and its seemingly conflicting implications-as oneness and differentiation, as the knowable ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ironies of Oneness and Difference

    Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li

    by Brook Ziporyn ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the unsuspected range of human thinking on the most basic categories of experience. The way in which early Chinese thinkers approached concepts such as one and many, sameness and difference, self and other, and internal and external stan... ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi

    by Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
    Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary philosophical readings, distances itself from the pursuit of authenticity and subverts the dominant Confucianism of its time through satirical ... Read more

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  • Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China

    Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom

    by Tao Jiang ...
    This book rewrites the story of classical Chinese philosophy, which has always been considered the single most creative and vibrant chapter in the history of Chinese philosophy. Works attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi and many others represent the very origins of moral and political thinking in China. As testimony to their enduring stature, in recent decades ... Read more

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  • Effortless Action

    Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China

    by Edward Slingerland ...
    This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness. This concept of effortlessness, ... Read more

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