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  • Chinese Cosmopolitanism

    The History and Philosophy of an Idea

    by Shuchen Xiang ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and differenceHistorically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism, Shuchen Xiang argues that the Chinese cultural tradition ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Philosophical Defense of Culture

    Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer

    by Shuchen Xiang ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Draws on two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition to argue for the contemporary philosophical relevance of "culture."In A Philosophical Defense of Culture, Shuchen Xiang draws on the Confucian philosophy of "culture" and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms to argue for the importance of "culture" as a philosophic paradigm. A defining ideal of Confucian-Chinese ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Islamic-Confucian Synthesis in China

    by Cheuk Yin Lee, Yihong Liu, Mingliang Ma, Guiping Yang ...
    Translated by Stephen Nashef, Chongning Zhang, Tianyi Zhang ...
    The presence and history of Islam in China is not well-known. Since its arrival into China during the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), Islam and its traditions have become an inextricable part of the fabric of the Chinese tradition. By the time of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 CE), Chinese Islam had evolved its own indigenous identity and, by the seventeenth century, specifically Chinese formulations of ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • How China Shaped the Enlightenment

    A Transcultural History of Modern Thought

    Edited by Shuchen Xiang, Martin Powers ...
    Series series Asia, Europe, and Global Connections
    This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and ideas about China had a profound impact on Enlightenment thought.Challenging the orthodox account of the Enlightenment as an innovation that emerged solely among European men, the book argues that many ideas which led to human progress originated outside Europe. Focusing on ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • History of Chinese Philosophy Through Its Key Terms

    by Yueqing Wang, Qinggang Bao, Guoxing Guan ...
    Translated by Shuchen Xiang ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a conceptual overview of the evolution of Chinese philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the end of the imperial era, highlighting 38 of the most essential terms in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Written by prominent contemporary scholars from Mainland China, the respective chapters cover topics ranging from cosmology, benti metaphysics, human nature, self-cultivation, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    The Limits of Literary Theory

    Edited by Michel Hockx, Ivo Smits ...
    This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understanding literary texts, their function, their readership and their interpretation. Often confined to ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Art and Cosmotechnics

    by Yuk Hui ...
    Series series e-flux
    In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought, especially in light of current discourses on artificial intelligence and robotics. It carries out an attempt on the cosmotechnics of Chinese landscape ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Jan Westerhoff ...
    The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the "second Buddha." His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the ... Read more

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  • The Moral Fool

    A Case for Amorality

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Justice, equality, and righteousness-these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as pathology-a rhetorical, psychological, and social tool that is used and abused as a weapon.An expert on Eastern philosophies and social systems ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Absence

    On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not being but ‘the way’ (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Comparison

    Theories, Approaches, Uses

    Edited by Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman ...
    An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities.Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD