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Thinking from the Han : self, truth, and transcendence in Chinese and Western culture / David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585043477
  • 9780585043470
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thinking from the Han.DDC classification:
  • 181/.11 21
LOC classification:
  • B126 .H255 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 08.10
  • B234
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue -- Part I: Metaphors of identity ; 1. The problematic of self in Western thought ; 2. The focus-field self in classical Confucianism ; 3. The focus-field self in classical Daoism ; 4. Chinese sexism -- Part II: "Truth" as a test case of cultural comparison ; 5. Excursus on method ; 6. Cultural requisites for a theory of truth in China ; 7. A pragmatic understanding of the way (Dao) -- Part III: Transcredence and immanence as cultural clues ; 8. The decline of transcredence in the West ; 9. Tian as a nontranscendent fields ; 10. The Chinese community without transcedence -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
Review: "This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts - self, truth, transcendence - which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures. "Self" specifies the meaning of the human subject, "truth" considers that subject's manner of relating to the world of which it is a part, and "transcendence" raises the issue as to whether the self/world relationship is grounded in something other than the elements resourced immediately in self and world. Considered together, the discussions of these concepts advertise in a most dramatic fashion the intellectual barriers currently existing between Chinese and Western thinkers. More importantly, these discussions reformulate Chinese and Western vocabularies in a manner that will enhance the possibilities of intercultural communication."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-330) and index.

Prologue -- Part I: Metaphors of identity ; 1. The problematic of self in Western thought ; 2. The focus-field self in classical Confucianism ; 3. The focus-field self in classical Daoism ; 4. Chinese sexism -- Part II: "Truth" as a test case of cultural comparison ; 5. Excursus on method ; 6. Cultural requisites for a theory of truth in China ; 7. A pragmatic understanding of the way (Dao) -- Part III: Transcredence and immanence as cultural clues ; 8. The decline of transcredence in the West ; 9. Tian as a nontranscendent fields ; 10. The Chinese community without transcedence -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Print version record.

"This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts - self, truth, transcendence - which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures. "Self" specifies the meaning of the human subject, "truth" considers that subject's manner of relating to the world of which it is a part, and "transcendence" raises the issue as to whether the self/world relationship is grounded in something other than the elements resourced immediately in self and world. Considered together, the discussions of these concepts advertise in a most dramatic fashion the intellectual barriers currently existing between Chinese and Western thinkers. More importantly, these discussions reformulate Chinese and Western vocabularies in a manner that will enhance the possibilities of intercultural communication."--Jacket.

English.

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