Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China
Kai Shmushko
- Title
- Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy
- Subtitle
- Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives
- Editors
- Kai Marchal
- Ellie Hua Wang
- Price
- € 129,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789048566358
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 10 - 04 - 2025
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 128,99
Introduction – Kai Marchal, Ellie Hua Wang
Part I The Importance of Perspective
1. Perspective, Dwelling, and Phenomenology in Early Chinese Philosophy – Franklin Perkins
2. Self-Knowledge, Perspective, and the Possibility of Understanding in Zhuangzi’s Happy Fish Dispute – Meng-Ting Chiang, Lee-Chun Lo, Kai-Yuan Cheng
Part II Awareness, Self-Consciousness, and the Reality of Appearances
3. “Not Having a Heart” (wu xin) or the Paradox Between Existence and Knowledge in the Philosophy of Guo Xiang – Dennis Schilling
4. The Sense Organs, Awareness and Luminosity in Classical Chinese and Indian Thought – Douglas L. Berger
5. Selfhood and Subjectivity in Neo-Confucianism – Kai Marchal
6. On Taking Appearances Seriously: Phenomenology, New Confucianism, and the Yogachara Theory of Consciousness – Christian Coseru
7. Self, Mind, and Consciousness: Comparative Reflections – Zhihua Yao
Part III Self and Other: Ethical and Aesthetical Perspective
8. Ritual and Confucian Shame – Ellie Hua Wang
9. Kierkegaard, Confucius, and the Intersubjective Dance – Sheridan Hough
10. The Bodily Self in Ancient Chinese Arts and in Twentieth-Century Euro-American Painting – Mathias Obert
Index
Part I The Importance of Perspective
1. Perspective, Dwelling, and Phenomenology in Early Chinese Philosophy – Franklin Perkins
2. Self-Knowledge, Perspective, and the Possibility of Understanding in Zhuangzi’s Happy Fish Dispute – Meng-Ting Chiang, Lee-Chun Lo, Kai-Yuan Cheng
Part II Awareness, Self-Consciousness, and the Reality of Appearances
3. “Not Having a Heart” (wu xin) or the Paradox Between Existence and Knowledge in the Philosophy of Guo Xiang – Dennis Schilling
4. The Sense Organs, Awareness and Luminosity in Classical Chinese and Indian Thought – Douglas L. Berger
5. Selfhood and Subjectivity in Neo-Confucianism – Kai Marchal
6. On Taking Appearances Seriously: Phenomenology, New Confucianism, and the Yogachara Theory of Consciousness – Christian Coseru
7. Self, Mind, and Consciousness: Comparative Reflections – Zhihua Yao
Part III Self and Other: Ethical and Aesthetical Perspective
8. Ritual and Confucian Shame – Ellie Hua Wang
9. Kierkegaard, Confucius, and the Intersubjective Dance – Sheridan Hough
10. The Bodily Self in Ancient Chinese Arts and in Twentieth-Century Euro-American Painting – Mathias Obert
Index
Kai Marchal, Ellie Hua Wang (eds)
Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy
Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Human beings have always been concerned with fundamental questions about their selves, including the deeply personal nature of human experience, the persistence of the self over time, the relation between mind and body, and the interdependence between self and community. The goal of this volume is to rethink these questions against the backdrop of the Chinese philosophical traditions, covering the ideas of major thinkers from Classical to late imperial China, with a particular focus on the fact that human experience is necessarily characterized by the first-person perspective. The contributors to this volume employ different methods (historical, comparative, phenomenological), but they all aim at bringing the rich resources of Chinese philosophy to life in our global present.
Editors
Kai Marchal
Kai Marchal is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at National Chengchi University in Taipei. His most recent publication is a monograph in German: Im Spiegel der All-Einheit. Selbst- und Weltbezug im chinesischen Mittelalter (Klostermann Publisher, 2024).
Ellie Hua Wang
Ellie Hua Wang is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She has published papers on early Confucianism and cross-cultural studies in ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics. Her current work focuses on ritual and its role in ethical transformation.
