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  • The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness

    Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting

    by Youru Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
    This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi.It responds to recent scholarship in the study of the ethics of forgetting, which has only emerged within the past two decades in the wake of the widespread memory-studies of the late 20th century. This book accomplishes two goals: First, it assimilates insights from contemporary ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism

    by Youru Wang ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    The popular name for Chan Buddhism, in the West, is Zen Buddhism, as it was Japanese scholars who first introduced Chan Buddhism to the West with this translation. Indeed, chan is a shortened form of the Chinese word channa, rendered from the Sanskrit word dhyana, which denotes practices of the concentration of the mind through meditation or contemplation. Although rooted in the Indian tradition ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Buddhisms and Deconstructions

    by Robert Magliola, Jane Augustine, Zong-qi Cai, Simon Glynn, Gad Horowitz, Roger Jackson, E.H Jarow, Steven W. Laycock, David R. Loy, Ian Mabbett, Frank W. Stevenson, Youru Wang, Ellen Y. Zhang ...
    Series series New Frameworks for Continental Philosophy
    Buddhisms and Deconstructions considers the connection between Buddhism and Derridean deconstruction, focusing on the work of Robert Magliola. Fourteen distinguished contributors discuss deconstruction and various Buddhisms-Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese (Chan)-followed by an afterword in which Magliola responds directly to his critics. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy

    Edited by Youru Wang, Sandra A. Wawrytko ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims. After several generations of scholarly discussion in English-speaking communities, it is time to move to the next hermeneutical stage. Buddhist philosophy must be liberated from ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism

    The Other Way of Speaking

    by Youru Wang ...
    As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indirect communication. It bases these investigations on the critical examination of original texts, placing them strictly within soteriological contexts. Whilst focusing on language use, the study also ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought

    Edited by Youru Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
    The striking parallels between Derrida’s deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from scholars of both Western and Asian philosophy. This book contributes to this discussion by focusing on the ethical dimension and function of deconstruction in Asian thought.Examining different ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    A Philosophical Translation

    by Roger Ames, David Hall ...
    In 1993, archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient bamboo scrolls that contained the earliest known version of the Dao de jing. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this life-changing document offers a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and revitalize moral behavior. Now in this luminous new translation, renowned China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Genuine Pretending

    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

    $26.69 USD

  • An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

    by Karyn Lai ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This second edition of An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy presents a comprehensive introduction to key ideas and arguments in early Chinese philosophy. Written in clear, accessible language, it explores philosophical traditions including Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism and Chinese Buddhism, and how they have shaped Chinese thought. Drawing on the key classical texts as well as up-to-date ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane

    The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy

    by Franklin Perkins ...
    Series series World Philosophies
    That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world. Perkins provides rich new readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects ... 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

    $62.09 USD

  • Neo-Confucianism

    Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality

    by JeeLoo Liu ...
    Solidly grounded in Chinese primary sources, Neo Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality engages the latest global scholarship to provide an innovative, rigorous, and clear articulation of neo-Confucianism and its application to Western philosophy.Contextualizes neo-Confucianism for contemporary analytic philosophy by engaging with today’s philosophical questions and debatesBased on the most ... Read more

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