The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ziporyn, Brook; Walker, Stephen C.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 broad contextualization.

The book is divided into four "Acts" that reflect system-level changes in how the Chinese philosophical conversation has been conducted:

• Act I draws primarily on pre-imperial texts, foregrounding competition among persuaders in the absence of a geographical or canonical center of gravity.
• Act II focuses on the early imperial centralization of intellectual culture around the corpus of Confucian classics.
• Act III restructures the conversation space according to the radically innovative priorities of Buddhism.
• Act IV focuses on Neo-Confucianism, which combines some of the priorities of Act II with the ongoing legacy of Act III.

Within each Act, contributors focus on topics like religious and political thought, ethics and self-cultivation, philosophical anthropology and theory of agency, language, epistemology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, and debate. This volume is essential reading for students, academics, and philosophers with an interest in Chinese philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040422830
• Artikelnr.: 75327233

Autorenporträt

Brook Ziporyn is Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the Divinity School, University of Chicago. His recent works include the monographs Ironies of Oneness and Difference (2012), Beyond Oneness and Difference (2013), Emptiness and Omnipresence (2016), and Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond (2024), as well as the translations Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings (2020) and Daodejing (2022). Stephen C. Walker teaches at the University of Chicago and DePaul University. His articles on classical Chinese philosophy (particularly the Zhuangzi and related texts) have appeared in Dao, Oriens Extremus, Philosophy East and West, and other venues.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Act I 1 Sociopolitical Context: Problems and Opportunities 2
Heaven, Spirits, and Fate 3 Divination, Prediction, and Human Agency 4
Military Affairs and Justified Violence 5 Basic Moral Values and Virtues 6
The Development of Law in Early Chinese Political Philosophy 7 The
Constitution of the Human Person 8 Agency 9 Names and Speech in Warring
States Thought 10 Knowledge and Argumentation 11 Dao and What Is Above
Forms Act II 12 Dao and Intellectual Diversity: Three Ways of Finding Our
Way Forward 13 Early Chinese Philosophy of History 14 Chinese Identity,
Confucian Ethnocentrism, and the Idea of the Civilization-State 15 Early
Literary Thought 16 Music in Early Chinese Philosophy 17 Gender Discourse
in the Confucian Classics and Han Confucianism 18 Filial Piety (Xiao): A
Crucial but Contested Virtue 19 Yinyang Thinking: The Power of Connectivity
20 Heaven and Fate in Han Period Thought 21 Things and What Is Beyond All
Things: Clarifying the Relationship Between You and Wu in Wei-Jin Xuanxue
22 Agency and Morality in Xuanxue Thought Act III 23 Chinese Reactions to
and Adaptations of Buddhist Monasticism 24 Relations Among the Three
Teachings 25 Expedient Means and Conventional Truth 26 Language and Beyond
Language in Chinese Buddhism 27 On Artistic Creations 28 Emptiness in
Chinese Buddhism 29 Buddha-nature 30 Consciousness 31 Theory and Practice
in Huayan Buddhism 32 Desire, Human Nature, and Relational Virtuosity: Chan
Buddhist Insights Act IV 33 Philosophy of Literature in Middle Period China
(800-1400) 34 Middle Period Arguments on the Compatibility of the Three
Teachings: The Positions of Chao Jiong, Qisong, and Li Chunfu 35 Things and
What Is Beyond All Things 36 Cosmology and Physical Science 37 Constitution
of the Human Person 38 Agency and Moral Subjectivity 39 Knowledge and
Knowing in Neo-Confucianism 40 Zhu Xi and the Paradox of Moral Education 41
Quiet-Sitting Meditation: A Philosophical Practice in the Cheng-Zhu
Learning of Pattern- Principle 42 Ideal Personality and the Ways to Achieve
It in Neo-Confucianism: The Teachings of Wang Yangming and His Followers as
an Example